Pith Number

pith:VTRU6FWC

pith:2016:VTRU6FWCD3ZNH4IVNIYM767S5C

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Diversified Top-k Similarity Search in Large Attributed Networks

Hong Shen, Zaiqiao Meng

arxiv:1608.05346 v1 · 2016-08-18 · cs.IR

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VTRU6FWCD3ZNH4IVNIYM767S5C}

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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

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T01:08:31.336486Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ace34f16c21ef2d3f1156a30cffbf2e88aacf6b6c83d033d8ee4d012d9bda657

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.05346 · arxiv_version: 1608.05346v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.05346 · pith_short_12: VTRU6FWCD3ZN · pith_short_16: VTRU6FWCD3ZNH4IV · pith_short_8: VTRU6FWC

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/VTRU6FWCD3ZNH4IVNIYM767S5C \
  | 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: ace34f16c21ef2d3f1156a30cffbf2e88aacf6b6c83d033d8ee4d012d9bda657

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5afef2d8608920ef32d03744e00fa5449cc8737a7586a86aa5b666aac73d728f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IR",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-18T17:45:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2146612aec5398dd463dc166ef045131e8fadd3f6d2f9884482afaafa2fed6f3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1608.05346",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}