Pith Number

pith:YMJTWB5R

pith:2015:YMJTWB5RG632HEIAGZDC36R7I3

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$k$-means: Fighting against Degeneracy in Sequential Monte Carlo with an Application to Tracking

Kai Fan, Katherine Heller

arxiv:1511.04157 v1 · 2015-11-13 · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YMJTWB5RG632HEIAGZDC36R7I3}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:26:59.554996Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c3133b07b137b7a3910036462dfa3f46dd37c8c600b75275790c84e47044d1d3

Aliases

arxiv: 1511.04157 · arxiv_version: 1511.04157v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1511.04157 · pith_short_12: YMJTWB5RG632 · pith_short_16: YMJTWB5RG632HEIA · pith_short_8: YMJTWB5R

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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/YMJTWB5RG632HEIAGZDC36R7I3 \
  | 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: c3133b07b137b7a3910036462dfa3f46dd37c8c600b75275790c84e47044d1d3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ba5a98854eb40cef3b8fb562b0ecc65b4e2192b327c80df3621083541946296e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2015-11-13T04:47:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "dbca2e5dd50012311c63a184e71229ed850f7b4621d499d38d38d51689342db3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1511.04157",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}