Pith Number

pith:ZITABFEA

pith:2018:ZITABFEAJKLPV3W36JWW5XTLFQ

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Analyzing and provably improving fixed budget ranking and selection algorithms

Di Wu, Enlu Zhou

arxiv:1811.12183 v1 · 2018-11-26 · math.OC · cs.SY · eess.SP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZITABFEAJKLPV3W36JWW5XTLFQ}

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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	2026-05-17T23:59:34.162851Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ca260094804a96faeedbf26d6ede6b2c33900ad8df1e1255548373417ea1e973

Aliases

arxiv: 1811.12183 · arxiv_version: 1811.12183v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1811.12183 · pith_short_12: ZITABFEAJKLP · pith_short_16: ZITABFEAJKLPV3W3 · pith_short_8: ZITABFEA

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ZITABFEAJKLPV3W36JWW5XTLFQ \
  | 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: ca260094804a96faeedbf26d6ede6b2c33900ad8df1e1255548373417ea1e973

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ff3605b97e467e4a72c9e26c8a4934a89d50697c7460109d816a2f5063b3c4db",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SY",
      "eess.SP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-11-26T14:33:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b1b137ad4e3b3abcd2eeb8e8b8c67443fb0c26f7bd751d0881bee9aac081b1f0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1811.12183",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}