Pith Number

pith:WXOQOOTY

pith:2020:WXOQOOTYOD6D4CFNSZI3ZJCYFI

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Estimating Total Correlation with Mutual Information Estimators

Ke Bai, Lawrence Carin, Pengyu Cheng, Ricardo Henao, Weituo Hao

arxiv:2011.04794 v2 · 2020-11-09 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WXOQOOTYOD6D4CFNSZI3ZJCYFI}

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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	2026-07-05T05:44:36.616251Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b5dd073a7870fc3e08ad9651bca4582a2b796ca39e8f4961c93d259e181b82dc

Aliases

arxiv: 2011.04794 · arxiv_version: 2011.04794v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2011.04794 · pith_short_12: WXOQOOTYOD6D · pith_short_16: WXOQOOTYOD6D4CFN · pith_short_8: WXOQOOTY

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/WXOQOOTYOD6D4CFNSZI3ZJCYFI \
  | 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: b5dd073a7870fc3e08ad9651bca4582a2b796ca39e8f4961c93d259e181b82dc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e966d2e1c5a65bbad5d2471b7daf69e5a2d74359fb2247d3bf99a30bb262a959",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2020-11-09T21:55:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fd73f100e791f270e9eafb26937fd845058399cf3ac649442a8d9ab3d9b4fc0a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2011.04794",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}