Pith Number

pith:BMEWNVAJ

pith:2006:BMEWNVAJGLMDGEVK2E5IECBOON

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Truncating the loop series expansion for Belief Propagation

H. J. Kappen, J. M. Mooij, Vicenc Gomez

arxiv:cs/0612109 v2 · 2006-12-21 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BMEWNVAJGLMDGEVK2E5IECBOON}

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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	2026-05-18T04:08:43.490152Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0b0966d40932d83312aad13a82082e7355ebad29ab39d6884b60ebdbb13d6a49

Aliases

arxiv: cs/0612109 · arxiv_version: cs/0612109v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cs/0612109 · pith_short_12: BMEWNVAJGLMD · pith_short_16: BMEWNVAJGLMDGEVK · pith_short_8: BMEWNVAJ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BMEWNVAJGLMDGEVK2E5IECBOON \
  | 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: 0b0966d40932d83312aad13a82082e7355ebad29ab39d6884b60ebdbb13d6a49

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ce9961e67c8c3b0b4d548292cb998e9c323ebc3527445c342570958f9ab38919",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2006-12-21T17:29:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d1377eb52e3d010aaba382d1369c3049a96e27c66cd191203f40f2369d8651a4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cs/0612109",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}