Pith Number

pith:24ZKEYMY

pith:2017:24ZKEYMYNTB3XYYQK4M5PBHUVX

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Choosing the number of groups in a latent stochastic block model for dynamic networks

Nial Friel, Pierre Latouche, Riccardo Rastelli

arxiv:1702.01418 v2 · 2017-02-05 · stat.ME · stat.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{24ZKEYMYNTB3XYYQK4M5PBHUVX}

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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	2026-05-18T00:48:09.245264Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d732a261986cc3bbe3105719d784f4adcc216aa22ded6f69877784682fb41b3f

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.01418 · arxiv_version: 1702.01418v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.01418 · pith_short_12: 24ZKEYMYNTB3 · pith_short_16: 24ZKEYMYNTB3XYYQ · pith_short_8: 24ZKEYMY

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/24ZKEYMYNTB3XYYQK4M5PBHUVX \
  | 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: d732a261986cc3bbe3105719d784f4adcc216aa22ded6f69877784682fb41b3f

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-05T15:43:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0157fb15c1f88e32858da57f412d9c89c09f74d97ad9f0dcfc80edb03be41d49"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.01418",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
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