Pith Number

pith:X2VSHQSA

pith:2017:X2VSHQSADL6E2NPDLVGSUVWFV5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Gaussian Lower Bound for the Information Bottleneck Limit

Amichai Painsky, Naftali Tishby

arxiv:1711.02421 v1 · 2017-11-07 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{X2VSHQSADL6E2NPDLVGSUVWFV5}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:31:07.946856Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

beab23c2401afc4d35e35d4d2a56c5af52688b51cfbab2496425213b9a9e94c8

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.02421 · arxiv_version: 1711.02421v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.02421 · pith_short_12: X2VSHQSADL6E · pith_short_16: X2VSHQSADL6E2NPD · pith_short_8: X2VSHQSA

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/X2VSHQSADL6E2NPDLVGSUVWFV5 \
  | 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: beab23c2401afc4d35e35d4d2a56c5af52688b51cfbab2496425213b9a9e94c8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1406d012ee7dd2d1575c7bcaa657e0117a777dee539bb1c593ed04f66491790a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-07T11:58:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c10e8801550a867d38a173511fb034f190b37866dd6d5e2cc07dcb641ec5baf6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.02421",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}