Pith Number

pith:Y2AZAOP6

pith:2018:Y2AZAOP6GEDB5VUWGTCKEBU7VR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Collaboratively Learning the Best Option on Graphs, Using Bounded Local Memory

Lili Su, Martin Zubeldia, Nancy Lynch

arxiv:1811.03968 v3 · 2018-11-08 · cs.DC · math.OC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Y2AZAOP6GEDB5VUWGTCKEBU7VR}

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-17T23:57:30.883183Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c6819039fe31061ed69634c4a2069fac7afe7ac0aa0dec08866db037dedcbea8

Aliases

arxiv: 1811.03968 · arxiv_version: 1811.03968v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1811.03968 · pith_short_12: Y2AZAOP6GEDB · pith_short_16: Y2AZAOP6GEDB5VUW · pith_short_8: Y2AZAOP6

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/Y2AZAOP6GEDB5VUWGTCKEBU7VR \
  | 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: c6819039fe31061ed69634c4a2069fac7afe7ac0aa0dec08866db037dedcbea8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "302db3bdb310734562f6807851fa72a8d378bb6273298eb4f072252602e03800",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.OC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-11-08T03:59:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3e983aad96bf876c923bf3f2c605249866e3d1fc349dd659d8e18f171c89c22c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1811.03968",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}