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pith:YVCCAKOF

pith:2015:YVCCAKOFPUO75ZVW7SM54EUOT6

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Strong data-processing inequalities for channels and Bayesian networks

Yihong Wu, Yury Polyanskiy

arxiv:1508.06025 v4 · 2015-08-25 · cs.IT · math.IT · math.ST · stat.TH

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:10:18.334119Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c5442029c57d1dfee6b6fc99de128e9fa347ff1ab6b36ab4ccfe9fce7e4e722d

Aliases

arxiv: 1508.06025 · arxiv_version: 1508.06025v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1508.06025 · pith_short_12: YVCCAKOFPUO7 · pith_short_16: YVCCAKOFPUO75ZVW · pith_short_8: YVCCAKOF

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/YVCCAKOFPUO75ZVW7SM54EUOT6 \
  | 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: c5442029c57d1dfee6b6fc99de128e9fa347ff1ab6b36ab4ccfe9fce7e4e722d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
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      "math.ST",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2015-08-25T04:29:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bf781f04c3f3764d691a98f484bd87f214628528783ed3dbd767f258c5e5edc3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}