Pith Number

pith:XTW6I2O7

pith:2016:XTW6I2O7JS5C7YTZDHLRNT7B76

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The ground truth about metadata and community detection in networks

Aaron Clauset, Daniel B. Larremore, Leto Peel

arxiv:1608.05878 v2 · 2016-08-20 · cs.SI · physics.data-an · physics.soc-ph · stat.ML

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XTW6I2O7JS5C7YTZDHLRNT7B76}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T00:34:15.833638Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bcede469df4cba2fe27919d716cfe1ffaad0df7224bd2cded7cbfd1baf2f63d6

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.05878 · arxiv_version: 1608.05878v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.05878 · pith_short_12: XTW6I2O7JS5C · pith_short_16: XTW6I2O7JS5C7YTZ · pith_short_8: XTW6I2O7

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/XTW6I2O7JS5C7YTZDHLRNT7B76 \
  | 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: bcede469df4cba2fe27919d716cfe1ffaad0df7224bd2cded7cbfd1baf2f63d6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "109526c8a23fc0f7536d009eb7fd7fe2a53b51e3c1d7afbc8a777e628c236e12",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.data-an",
      "physics.soc-ph",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-20T23:57:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "62d775eb2e1f1f27e8e66d902d9e642a9fad8f02c5ef4b57d8eaf47020220792"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1608.05878",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}