Pith Number

pith:W2SMENGM

pith:2016:W2SMENGM2OUE5QZKBCNI46KQLS

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A case study of algorithm selection for the traveling thief problem

Frank Hutter, Marius Lindauer, Markus Wagner, Mustafa Misir, Samadhi Nallaperuma

arxiv:1609.00462 v1 · 2016-09-02 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{W2SMENGM2OUE5QZKBCNI46KQLS}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:06:23.872890Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b6a4c234ccd3a84ec32a089a8e79505c91dd54daae392338386edc6e7799cd74

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.00462 · arxiv_version: 1609.00462v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.00462 · pith_short_12: W2SMENGM2OUE · pith_short_16: W2SMENGM2OUE5QZK · pith_short_8: W2SMENGM

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/W2SMENGM2OUE5QZKBCNI46KQLS \
  | 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: b6a4c234ccd3a84ec32a089a8e79505c91dd54daae392338386edc6e7799cd74

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "013df67f1bb4500b954cc500f180ae0152280d5e3bc70efc4c8ea4db61f0af35",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-02T04:03:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "30970619044d0d33a13154cc1f2511d29a940f9b6580ec5dc0b3b8fd4c2fdd96"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.00462",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}