Pith Number

pith:ZKJLDE2S

pith:2018:ZKJLDE2S7D72QXR5SD6O2TJA6W

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Variance Networks: When Expectation Does Not Meet Your Expectations

Arsenii Ashukha, Dmitry Molchanov, Dmitry Vetrov, Kirill Neklyudov

arxiv:1803.03764 v5 · 2018-03-10 · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZKJLDE2S7D72QXR5SD6O2TJA6W}

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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	2026-05-17T23:53:51.594484Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ca92b19352f8ffa85e3d90fced4d20f5aa011fd42c64de5e6649de4d7fad2250

Aliases

arxiv: 1803.03764 · arxiv_version: 1803.03764v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.03764 · pith_short_12: ZKJLDE2S7D72 · pith_short_16: ZKJLDE2S7D72QXR5 · pith_short_8: ZKJLDE2S

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/ZKJLDE2S7D72QXR5SD6O2TJA6W \
  | 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: ca92b19352f8ffa85e3d90fced4d20f5aa011fd42c64de5e6649de4d7fad2250

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "43a0d5091d692df6aa8a2c9939ef773bf9c77b62a078f75ac5f00166886e199f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2018-03-10T06:01:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "faee2b3bd5e9c8adb253a53dee7793145e32dcda3d16e828dd2bf53edca60c29"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1803.03764",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}