Pith Number

pith:YOYUQBX2

pith:2016:YOYUQBX254CDGTE3CDB4Z4IPUS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Demystifying Fixed k-Nearest Neighbor Information Estimators

Pramod Viswanath, Sewoong Oh, Weihao Gao

arxiv:1604.03006 v2 · 2016-04-11 · cs.LG · cs.IT · math.IT · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YOYUQBX254CDGTE3CDB4Z4IPUS}

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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	2026-05-18T01:09:32.030363Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c3b14806faef04334c9b10c3ccf10fa4826bd79e3c53c444b44d69f746ea91fa

Aliases

arxiv: 1604.03006 · arxiv_version: 1604.03006v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1604.03006 · pith_short_12: YOYUQBX254CD · pith_short_16: YOYUQBX254CDGTE3 · pith_short_8: YOYUQBX2

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/YOYUQBX254CDGTE3CDB4Z4IPUS \
  | 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: c3b14806faef04334c9b10c3ccf10fa4826bd79e3c53c444b44d69f746ea91fa

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4da7b32eafeffd4ea58272fa99e1357c2587b49349000e46b239a7d69accb897",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2016-04-11T15:47:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2e3540d8b59941d8a2a274625cb545e5b76904234185748ae99c734870ed75ec"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1604.03006",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}