Pith Number

pith:Z6N26Z4M

pith:2016:Z6N26Z4MA4AXCZR665ZFCUID23

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Self-Sustaining Iterated Learning

Bernard Chazelle, Chu Wang

arxiv:1609.03960 v1 · 2016-09-13 · math.OC · cs.LG · stat.ML

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Z6N26Z4MA4AXCZR665ZFCUID23}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T01:04:42.087642Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cf9baf678c070171663ef772515103d6f05f256e68445d49b898c283983a7c95

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.03960 · arxiv_version: 1609.03960v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.03960 · pith_short_12: Z6N26Z4MA4AX · pith_short_16: Z6N26Z4MA4AXCZR6 · pith_short_8: Z6N26Z4M

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/Z6N26Z4MA4AXCZR665ZFCUID23 \
  | 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: cf9baf678c070171663ef772515103d6f05f256e68445d49b898c283983a7c95

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "593a5adb45f2ab171fcfef43e9c7c4043753790e8683f6ba034566cbec0a40a3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-13T18:18:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3d4a13711babc86a34f7540230f93d1b1ccdbcbb8f886bc048ed1d13650e6880"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.03960",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}