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pith:YET7BKJN

pith:2017:YET7BKJN5SYWH5IVGA6273OPYM

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The information bottleneck and geometric clustering

David J Schwab, DJ Strouse

arxiv:1712.09657 v2 · 2017-12-27 · stat.ML · cs.AI · cs.IT · cs.LG · math.IT

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\pithnumber{YET7BKJN5SYWH5IVGA6273OPYM}

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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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Topic Identification in LLM Input-Output Pairs through the Lens of Information Bottleneck

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First computed	2026-07-05T01:06:45.833144Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c127f0a92decb163f515303dafedcfc3179c5096481f34012259cf9c16801281

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.09657 · arxiv_version: 1712.09657v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.09657 · pith_short_12: YET7BKJN5SYW · pith_short_16: YET7BKJN5SYWH5IV · pith_short_8: YET7BKJN

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/YET7BKJN5SYWH5IVGA6273OPYM \
  | 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: c127f0a92decb163f515303dafedcfc3179c5096481f34012259cf9c16801281

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5f04b2dea2dbe6bcf24e095a57217b39311e6c94a2ae2fde8b12fd91b17754f7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.IT",
      "cs.LG",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-27T19:04:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "08c992865a9377421ef490d3ec14b297c85501c88ec628c6b4c3aa51d24d20a6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.09657",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}