Pith Number

pith:Y4XB6NS7

pith:2017:Y4XB6NS7TAAWHGZFZCSLOGYM3K

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Partitioning Relational Matrices of Similarities or Dissimilarities using the Value of Information

Isaac J. Sledge, Jose C. Principe

arxiv:1710.10381 v1 · 2017-10-28 · cs.AI · cs.LG · stat.ML

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\pithnumber{Y4XB6NS7TAAWHGZFZCSLOGYM3K}

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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	2026-05-18T00:31:49.712947Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c72e1f365f9801639b25c8a4b71b0cdaa8b1c5c5a25bdb2350ab9eb3ced056c9

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.10381 · arxiv_version: 1710.10381v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.10381 · pith_short_12: Y4XB6NS7TAAW · pith_short_16: Y4XB6NS7TAAWHGZF · pith_short_8: Y4XB6NS7

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/Y4XB6NS7TAAWHGZFZCSLOGYM3K \
  | 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: c72e1f365f9801639b25c8a4b71b0cdaa8b1c5c5a25bdb2350ab9eb3ced056c9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ec41af99514ea8299c298462500f1485d8bccdb768a4b2c2959ae621bc52c749",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-28T03:21:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7c8798569daa2cf79ffc2a428f2c7440263cfd8e1e7b326a3ff6ec0f39ca62a4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.10381",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}