Pith Number

pith:CIGXRG3G

pith:2016:CIGXRG3GZ747WJRWHYKI7KMY6F

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Prediction with a Short Memory

Gregory Valiant, Percy Liang, Sham Kakade, Vatsal Sharan

arxiv:1612.02526 v5 · 2016-12-08 · cs.LG · cs.AI · cs.CC · stat.ML

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CIGXRG3GZ747WJRWHYKI7KMY6F}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T00:12:11.497410Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

120d789b66cff9fb26363e148fa998f14e587ffc146c5838e81125215f0c06c4

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.02526 · arxiv_version: 1612.02526v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.02526 · pith_short_12: CIGXRG3GZ747 · pith_short_16: CIGXRG3GZ747WJRW · pith_short_8: CIGXRG3G

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/CIGXRG3GZ747WJRWHYKI7KMY6F \
  | 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: 120d789b66cff9fb26363e148fa998f14e587ffc146c5838e81125215f0c06c4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e9c0d2e93325fcf55b7b3ba213903a986cbc30084592e91b9e39205b18dc8768",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.CC",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2016-12-08T04:18:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "705015b6ee13e91d96367742015d977d62d6193dc0f38118a46ed11913b733db"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.02526",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}