Pith Number

pith:VQ45YOW3

pith:2017:VQ45YOW3EATCKQRKVZJEQZMHEL

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Cross-validation improved by aggregation: Agghoo

Guillaume Maillard (LMO, LM-Orsay), Matthieu Lerasle (LMO, SELECT, Sylvain Arlot (LMO

arxiv:1709.03702 v1 · 2017-09-12 · math.ST · stat.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VQ45YOW3EATCKQRKVZJEQZMHEL}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T00:35:29.753234Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ac39dc3adb202625422aae5248658722d7c85434b17ab67c24794b6aaf64174f

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.03702 · arxiv_version: 1709.03702v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.03702 · pith_short_12: VQ45YOW3EATC · pith_short_16: VQ45YOW3EATCKQRK · pith_short_8: VQ45YOW3

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/VQ45YOW3EATCKQRKVZJEQZMHEL \
  | 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: ac39dc3adb202625422aae5248658722d7c85434b17ab67c24794b6aaf64174f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a7963d57fb4f984b0731378a50f76654269e5ec4565b192ef627c0e94e6d4a46",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-12T06:29:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1edbf457a2526f745d20904774ccaaa99f9686a0c831315a0e906e6c864fea8d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.03702",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}