Pith Number

pith:6ZYEKGPF

pith:2011:6ZYEKGPFZBHW7LCU3OECG2KCYG

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An MCMC Approach to Universal Lossy Compression of Analog Sources

Dror Baron, Tsachy Weissman

arxiv:1107.2972 v1 · 2011-07-15 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6ZYEKGPFZBHW7LCU3OECG2KCYG}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-18T02:01:16.564997Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f6704519e5c84f6fac54db88236942c19138ee34c0211bc3202de7f6e6bef01e

Aliases

arxiv: 1107.2972 · arxiv_version: 1107.2972v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1107.2972 · pith_short_12: 6ZYEKGPFZBHW · pith_short_16: 6ZYEKGPFZBHW7LCU · pith_short_8: 6ZYEKGPF

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/6ZYEKGPFZBHW7LCU3OECG2KCYG \
  | 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: f6704519e5c84f6fac54db88236942c19138ee34c0211bc3202de7f6e6bef01e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fd3262bdb20a63ab8eb86993b2d1044d7ffdfaa3b41bfbb38d8ac4c00d3bbd9a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2011-07-15T00:05:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "259c6fa86d316b66ca40b5bbc2d36e2f5520e02b52cf3e95002806fe484ea0dc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1107.2972",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}