Pith Number

pith:5Y6ECHIB

pith:2024:5Y6ECHIBFONBQQSFTKAIURWOBF

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Entropy Coding of Unordered Data Structures

Daniel Severo, Giulio Zani, James Townsend, Jan-Willem van de Meent, Julius Kunze

arxiv:2408.08837 v1 · 2024-08-16 · cs.LG · cs.DS · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5Y6ECHIBFONBQQSFTKAIURWOBF}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-07-05T08:56:09.457679Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ee3c411d012b9a1842459a808a46ce09501dbf65bb2df0c5a315e10c9d2fa43d

Aliases

arxiv: 2408.08837 · arxiv_version: 2408.08837v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2408.08837 · pith_short_12: 5Y6ECHIBFONB · pith_short_16: 5Y6ECHIBFONBQQSF · pith_short_8: 5Y6ECHIB

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/5Y6ECHIBFONBQQSFTKAIURWOBF \
  | 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: ee3c411d012b9a1842459a808a46ce09501dbf65bb2df0c5a315e10c9d2fa43d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e6e84f4e740085a66cd0a9c1b839c3bdd95a231e0ae1a36fea932951f79ee71f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS",
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2024-08-16T16:41:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2440a5c7041e7381e4d331044faae91d68694b37c0ddf2a80dda7f5176a12b71"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2408.08837",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}