Pith Number

pith:WCD5PKAM

pith:2017:WCD5PKAM7MDLYDPYW65G3WBZO5

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A Bayesian algorithm for detecting identity matches and fraud in image databases

Gaurav Thakur

arxiv:1706.06230 v1 · 2017-06-20 · cs.CV · stat.ML

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\pithnumber{WCD5PKAM7MDLYDPYW65G3WBZO5}

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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	2026-05-18T00:42:03.841122Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b087d7a80cfb06bc0df8b7ba6dd8397758c33fd882194a989342a47e8790f4c5

Aliases

arxiv: 1706.06230 · arxiv_version: 1706.06230v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1706.06230 · pith_short_12: WCD5PKAM7MDL · pith_short_16: WCD5PKAM7MDLYDPY · pith_short_8: WCD5PKAM

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/WCD5PKAM7MDLYDPYW65G3WBZO5 \
  | 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: b087d7a80cfb06bc0df8b7ba6dd8397758c33fd882194a989342a47e8790f4c5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "241f6b260d5b69b2b020ec6da81126df1012452fa64f3be64f24dfe00afb0a23",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CV",
    "submitted_at": "2017-06-20T00:43:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e5556c93171dbe1efa823b89bb20e4734be656bab409dc854893d62fdf8124c2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1706.06230",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}