Pith Number

pith:YHV6CUUG

pith:2017:YHV6CUUGGQ2XJYDBKF5VD65RWQ

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Sampling for Approximate Bipartite Network Projection

Liangzhen Xia, Nesreen K. Ahmed, Nick Duffield

arxiv:1712.08685 v2 · 2017-12-22 · cs.SI · cs.DS · cs.IR · math.ST · stat.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YHV6CUUGGQ2XJYDBKF5VD65RWQ}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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	2026-05-18T00:16:36.540749Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c1ebe15286343574e061517b51fbb1b41cada4f0a983ae535be0c4a6e9ec6a36

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.08685 · arxiv_version: 1712.08685v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.08685 · pith_short_12: YHV6CUUGGQ2X · pith_short_16: YHV6CUUGGQ2XJYDB · pith_short_8: YHV6CUUG

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/YHV6CUUGGQ2XJYDBKF5VD65RWQ \
  | 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: c1ebe15286343574e061517b51fbb1b41cada4f0a983ae535be0c4a6e9ec6a36

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b4303523598a85993e15885a8c0e41fa71ee127cf69a3553b40928b1051252e7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS",
      "cs.IR",
      "math.ST",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-22T23:56:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d041b4c26e31008c9e8fcb3a113aa4a2aa9cd32bf5908204b8c89629d0b3e319"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.08685",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}