Pith Number

pith:A7WJO5BD

pith:2012:A7WJO5BDLHPPGBR6GQPW3ZCMNZ

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Robust Distributed Maximum Likelihood Estimation with Dependent Quantized Data

Pramod K. Varshney (IEEE), Xiaojing Shen (IEEE), Yunmin Zhu

arxiv:1208.4161 v3 · 2012-08-21 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{A7WJO5BDLHPPGBR6GQPW3ZCMNZ}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T03:13:21.855771Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

07ec97742359def3063e341f6de44c6e44d086252c4643b933d277eb9020eed9

Aliases

arxiv: 1208.4161 · arxiv_version: 1208.4161v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1208.4161 · pith_short_12: A7WJO5BDLHPP · pith_short_16: A7WJO5BDLHPPGBR6 · pith_short_8: A7WJO5BD

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/A7WJO5BDLHPPGBR6GQPW3ZCMNZ \
  | 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: 07ec97742359def3063e341f6de44c6e44d086252c4643b933d277eb9020eed9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7506bd214ca715c71a23c47574fc5c57fa2fe001191392cc7aa7f643cbabd1e4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2012-08-21T02:02:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1a566990de089f3f82fd592d46426663fd00b265ca9f67386efbb357d3fb0e29"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1208.4161",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}