Pith Number

pith:X6KIVZJB

pith:2017:X6KIVZJBXYU6LSZ7LO7VWPHJM6

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ES Is More Than Just a Traditional Finite-Difference Approximator

Jay Chen, Jeff Clune, Joel Lehman, Kenneth O. Stanley

arxiv:1712.06568 v3 · 2017-12-18 · cs.NE · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{X6KIVZJBXYU6LSZ7LO7VWPHJM6}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:17:01.428119Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bf948ae521be29e5cb3f5bbf5b3ce967a8b944532fdca944d7caf778ecf8388d

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.06568 · arxiv_version: 1712.06568v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.06568 · pith_short_12: X6KIVZJBXYU6 · pith_short_16: X6KIVZJBXYU6LSZ7 · pith_short_8: X6KIVZJB

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/X6KIVZJBXYU6LSZ7LO7VWPHJM6 \
  | 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: bf948ae521be29e5cb3f5bbf5b3ce967a8b944532fdca944d7caf778ecf8388d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ff84934848efca6cc685ce10c9a781aa552dc66f37796342272726e949eea001",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-18T18:25:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b214ef181a21a648fb05694d13187ea4415ff2a0ad7463da72a8a7b8a1251d25"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.06568",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}