Pith Number

pith:XTUC6EJ5

pith:2024:XTUC6EJ5TDI2SSWZMALXMDOKXP

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How NOT to Fool the Masses When Giving Performance Results for Quantum Computers

Catherine McGeoch

arxiv:2411.08860 v1 · 2024-11-13 · quant-ph · cs.ET

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\pithnumber{XTUC6EJ5TDI2SSWZMALXMDOKXP}

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2 papers in Pith

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A Statistical Analysis for Per-Instance Evaluation of Stochastic Optimizers: Avoiding Unreliable Conclusions

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T09:35:03.768232Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bce82f113d98d1a94ad96017760dcabbff5fb4f0cd821dd9fd44d3c19af09d7c

Aliases

arxiv: 2411.08860 · arxiv_version: 2411.08860v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2411.08860 · pith_short_12: XTUC6EJ5TDI2 · pith_short_16: XTUC6EJ5TDI2SSWZ · pith_short_8: XTUC6EJ5

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/XTUC6EJ5TDI2SSWZMALXMDOKXP \
  | 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: bce82f113d98d1a94ad96017760dcabbff5fb4f0cd821dd9fd44d3c19af09d7c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5a683bd1e7ea95e15e07bf8d46f569ed941683c77e583ece8a7dbecf18ad6f47",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.ET"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2024-11-13T18:41:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6f4195cb9423683ec75c1b263f95412a39b281e112c456dfd77e8c25b36beff7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2411.08860",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}