Pith Number

pith:HMRG5KFX

pith:2014:HMRG5KFXCSP5BHDBBUA5LHKWTG

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The Likelihood Encoder for Lossy Compression

Eva C. Song, H. Vincent Poor, Paul Cuff

arxiv:1408.4522 v3 · 2014-08-20 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HMRG5KFXCSP5BHDBBUA5LHKWTG}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T01:17:37.836671Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3b226ea8b7149fd09c610d01d59d5699a07248ef98099b65957f496e68babbaf

Aliases

arxiv: 1408.4522 · arxiv_version: 1408.4522v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1408.4522 · pith_short_12: HMRG5KFXCSP5 · pith_short_16: HMRG5KFXCSP5BHDB · pith_short_8: HMRG5KFX

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/HMRG5KFXCSP5BHDBBUA5LHKWTG \
  | 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: 3b226ea8b7149fd09c610d01d59d5699a07248ef98099b65957f496e68babbaf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "123e2f4e08520f9893016db9b77ee4763efeac837ad52000aec4f6098ff99b04",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2014-08-20T05:07:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f610f699a0ca128e41861271a3a500a26b725023054405dbd4a38f875cf28f31"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1408.4522",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}