Pith Number

pith:XSNYVDIR

pith:2018:XSNYVDIRZHGVM4QBWDJWNXPW4E

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Second-Order Asymptotically Optimal Statistical Classification

Lin Zhou, Mehul Motani, Vincent Y. F. Tan

arxiv:1806.00739 v3 · 2018-06-03 · cs.IT · cs.LG · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XSNYVDIRZHGVM4QBWDJWNXPW4E}

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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	2026-05-17T23:58:59.170764Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bc9b8a8d11c9cd567201b0d366ddf6e112ced53876b0b3a9e8de45c76051dccd

Aliases

arxiv: 1806.00739 · arxiv_version: 1806.00739v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1806.00739 · pith_short_12: XSNYVDIRZHGV · pith_short_16: XSNYVDIRZHGVM4QB · pith_short_8: XSNYVDIR

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/XSNYVDIRZHGVM4QBWDJWNXPW4E \
  | 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: bc9b8a8d11c9cd567201b0d366ddf6e112ced53876b0b3a9e8de45c76051dccd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9d09b22e72e2fc3f7d8c0d5e9cf9d3fa648582b244bcbd349661a84b241c7e9c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2018-06-03T05:33:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5fd2d7fb8fff1c268ae62ce98de04f2e07b864a629e1131a777e350544803e6f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1806.00739",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}