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pith:VPYIQ2CV

pith:2017:VPYIQ2CVGIMD5NQ3Q3LDPANUJB

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Tight Lower Bounds for Differentially Private Selection

Jonathan Ullman, Thomas Steinke

arxiv:1704.03024 v1 · 2017-04-10 · cs.DS · cs.CR

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Smooth Partial Lotteries for Stable Randomized Selection

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:46:33.966714Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

abf088685532183eb61b86d63781b4486cd7dfcfcd12e2a6173dbdd7fbc842f1

Aliases

arxiv: 1704.03024 · arxiv_version: 1704.03024v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1704.03024 · pith_short_12: VPYIQ2CVGIMD · pith_short_16: VPYIQ2CVGIMD5NQ3 · pith_short_8: VPYIQ2CV

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VPYIQ2CVGIMD5NQ3Q3LDPANUJB \
  | 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: abf088685532183eb61b86d63781b4486cd7dfcfcd12e2a6173dbdd7fbc842f1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4be85aa3ed473e30dc9e43c883eeeec5453b2df6af558c035ea644f9e5051a24",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2017-04-10T19:16:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3a6244f7c3bd367caaa66e72df9975aa4551c36de72a44aeea5aef5ba92c286b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1704.03024",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}