Pith Number

pith:YFK74Z4W

pith:2014:YFK74Z4WAFILVZ7RYBYXUJRFOF

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Multivariate f-Divergence Estimation With Confidence

Alfred O. Hero III, Kevin R. Moon

arxiv:1411.2045 v1 · 2014-11-07 · cs.IT · math.IT · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YFK74Z4WAFILVZ7RYBYXUJRFOF}

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4 Citations open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T02:23:58.361919Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c155fe67960150bae7f1c0717a262571412357ec359b615847f9d020a70590d3

Aliases

arxiv: 1411.2045 · arxiv_version: 1411.2045v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1411.2045 · pith_short_12: YFK74Z4WAFIL · pith_short_16: YFK74Z4WAFILVZ7R · pith_short_8: YFK74Z4W

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/YFK74Z4WAFILVZ7RYBYXUJRFOF \
  | 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: c155fe67960150bae7f1c0717a262571412357ec359b615847f9d020a70590d3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "de60109875b0ec755dd9df753b957dd70dde480ec659855691ded960b2b5bf4d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2014-11-07T22:01:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "06f78de31dcaf2f3bdb904d16b9b498bf1772a4b95dd1fc37b52c94ccc688efb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1411.2045",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}