Pith Number

pith:XQ4MX73S

pith:2017:XQ4MX73SULX34ZO7NEDICNL4MS

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Nonlinear Information Bottleneck

Artemy Kolchinsky, Brendan D. Tracey, David H. Wolpert

arxiv:1705.02436 v9 · 2017-05-06 · cs.IT · cs.LG · math.IT · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XQ4MX73SULX34ZO7NEDICNL4MS}

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4 Citations 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	2026-07-05T05:17:22.281463Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bc38cbff72a2efbe65df690681357c64bb34a79e853aa4c10da07d6644b1e602

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.02436 · arxiv_version: 1705.02436v9 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.02436 · pith_short_12: XQ4MX73SULX3 · pith_short_16: XQ4MX73SULX34ZO7 · pith_short_8: XQ4MX73S

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/XQ4MX73SULX34ZO7NEDICNL4MS \
  | 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: bc38cbff72a2efbe65df690681357c64bb34a79e853aa4c10da07d6644b1e602

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7fb810e7df2e493848f1b59034332958240bf5daa0c2e578e0ea5276f3c90f0a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "math.IT",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-06T03:13:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "526cf7eac7858085928d49ee7182f0f3b841ddb247c713e22d7186e1236f7cf1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.02436",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 9
  }
}