Pith Number

pith:4E2KEQP5

pith:2018:4E2KEQP54D7MPL3EV4BYOE3QON

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The Generic Holdout: Preventing False-Discoveries in Adaptive Data Science

Jaros{\l}aw B{\l}asiok, Preetum Nakkiran

arxiv:1809.05596 v1 · 2018-09-14 · stat.ME · cs.LG · math.ST · stat.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4E2KEQP54D7MPL3EV4BYOE3QON}

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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	2026-05-18T00:05:40.564817Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e134a241fde0fec7af64af0387137073749d79dabe034e5389fcf3d877a45888

Aliases

arxiv: 1809.05596 · arxiv_version: 1809.05596v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1809.05596 · pith_short_12: 4E2KEQP54D7M · pith_short_16: 4E2KEQP54D7MPL3E · pith_short_8: 4E2KEQP5

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4E2KEQP54D7MPL3EV4BYOE3QON \
  | 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: e134a241fde0fec7af64af0387137073749d79dabe034e5389fcf3d877a45888

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2d0beaef3a0c580b2639efb5bca252e9bace2a327828e5403f7343f548eebca2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "math.ST",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2018-09-14T21:28:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "db1a06f3e85ddb01a4e4a5527401625c9b090c1bbd98d6ea017be421a779bb78"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1809.05596",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}