Pith Number

pith:YK5G73JO

pith:2014:YK5G73JOS7JECWWCFJZBHSS3GY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Justification of Logarithmic Loss via the Benefit of Side Information

Jiantao Jiao, Kartik Venkat, Thomas Courtade, Tsachy Weissman

arxiv:1403.4679 v2 · 2014-03-19 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YK5G73JOS7JECWWCFJZBHSS3GY}

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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	2026-05-18T01:23:58.922585Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c2ba6fed2e97d2415ac22a7213ca5b361e4577701702558373f21a53ee516d1f

Aliases

arxiv: 1403.4679 · arxiv_version: 1403.4679v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1403.4679 · pith_short_12: YK5G73JOS7JE · pith_short_16: YK5G73JOS7JECWWC · pith_short_8: YK5G73JO

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/YK5G73JOS7JECWWCFJZBHSS3GY \
  | 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: c2ba6fed2e97d2415ac22a7213ca5b361e4577701702558373f21a53ee516d1f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "80755c2845a83e9c9b04aab88db42c3f19a51819be27a1890b0fe110cf92b310",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2014-03-19T03:15:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fa32426353d7e698354356f911068cc24d4c0f15af491a83bc70a4bbeb841344"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1403.4679",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}