Pith Number

pith:ZUXPMBGT

pith:2020:ZUXPMBGT7XIFYJPBLMELJYR74V

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Empirically Classifying Network Mechanisms

Matthew G. Burgess, Ryan E. Langendorf

arxiv:2012.15863 v2 · 2020-12-22 · cs.SI · cs.LG · stat.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZUXPMBGT7XIFYJPBLMELJYR74V}

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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	2026-07-05T03:48:28.456366Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cd2ef604d3fdd05c25e15b08b4e23fe54525f8dcec6aac00f3fddd59cb619881

Aliases

arxiv: 2012.15863 · arxiv_version: 2012.15863v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2012.15863 · pith_short_12: ZUXPMBGT7XIF · pith_short_16: ZUXPMBGT7XIFYJPB · pith_short_8: ZUXPMBGT

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/ZUXPMBGT7XIFYJPBLMELJYR74V \
  | 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: cd2ef604d3fdd05c25e15b08b4e23fe54525f8dcec6aac00f3fddd59cb619881

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7c17ea60dba5d6f7e287b78fe68ef5cdf8198d067fb9d923b7c2176af946da08",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "stat.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2020-12-22T01:41:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "08d0bad746d1a91eee8942a25b0ae7d0d0ac391362c43acaaedff522c28d8792"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2012.15863",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}