Pith Number

pith:VNTQCCTF

pith:2017:VNTQCCTFQDI2C4VW4QVAHKYVRE

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Belief Propagation, Bethe Approximation and Polynomials

Damian Straszak, Nisheeth K. Vishnoi

arxiv:1708.02581 v1 · 2017-08-08 · cs.LG · cs.DS · cs.IT · math.IT · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VNTQCCTFQDI2C4VW4QVAHKYVRE}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:38:23.853915Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ab67010a6580d1a172b6e42a03ab15890b6e6a7a4dac027f0555731e1d06ce31

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.02581 · arxiv_version: 1708.02581v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.02581 · pith_short_12: VNTQCCTFQDI2 · pith_short_16: VNTQCCTFQDI2C4VW · pith_short_8: VNTQCCTF

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VNTQCCTFQDI2C4VW4QVAHKYVRE \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: ab67010a6580d1a172b6e42a03ab15890b6e6a7a4dac027f0555731e1d06ce31

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f1cdfb0a89c57faf2cecc49fe5975ec07e192cc4856b01721cda4929eb268873",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS",
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-08T17:56:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d72e57e17227f31287af1565162df7e5ad26e5eee9c4decf006604ed43270b79"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.02581",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}