Pith Number

pith:YBYQS6GK

pith:2018:YBYQS6GKPSIVPPX7LLH4CUOIMJ

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Information Bottleneck Methods for Distributed Learning

Ahmad Beirami, Matthew Nokleby, Parinaz Farajiparvar

arxiv:1810.11499 v1 · 2018-10-26 · cs.IT · cs.LG · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YBYQS6GKPSIVPPX7LLH4CUOIMJ}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:02:08.500986Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c0710978ca7c9157beff5acfc151c8626fc448c7fe94bca6e56840acbab8772f

Aliases

arxiv: 1810.11499 · arxiv_version: 1810.11499v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.11499 · pith_short_12: YBYQS6GKPSIV · pith_short_16: YBYQS6GKPSIVPPX7 · pith_short_8: YBYQS6GK

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/YBYQS6GKPSIVPPX7LLH4CUOIMJ \
  | 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: c0710978ca7c9157beff5acfc151c8626fc448c7fe94bca6e56840acbab8772f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "888939a62349336f60cbd0fde2dfbd4df192b4d1272f881c56aa2c5a5e85e683",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2018-10-26T18:48:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f9b939309d896fa3d1ca0db58883edc0edb0bf1bc32fed7ff33e3eca5bb47c41"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1810.11499",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}