Pith Number

pith:YWVJFMMX

pith:2018:YWVJFMMXK42OJ6S5Y7PFEX6SVE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Continuous, Full-scope, Spatio-temporal Tracking Metric based on KL-divergence

Terrence Adams

arxiv:1805.03707 v3 · 2018-05-09 · cs.CV

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YWVJFMMXK42OJ6S5Y7PFEX6SVE}

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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	2026-05-17T23:52:24.424020Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c5aa92b1975734e4fa5dc7de525fd2a90e795b3ab4d926f9cb476f31f0b4c838

Aliases

arxiv: 1805.03707 · arxiv_version: 1805.03707v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.03707 · pith_short_12: YWVJFMMXK42O · pith_short_16: YWVJFMMXK42OJ6S5 · pith_short_8: YWVJFMMX

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/YWVJFMMXK42OJ6S5Y7PFEX6SVE \
  | 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: c5aa92b1975734e4fa5dc7de525fd2a90e795b3ab4d926f9cb476f31f0b4c838

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "30e49a848c8cb31cfa5239cebd924bd809703432b016e67b0b9a49d64cef2780",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CV",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-09T19:47:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6f951543ca32ebc5a3275bd3e5a6b1c3e10098bcc065e9702efda5ff05ca357a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1805.03707",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}