Pith Number

pith:ME7PZTOW

pith:2016:ME7PZTOWRUFFUPDLAC3NHTRSKR

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Preserving Randomness for Adaptive Algorithms

Adam R. Klivans, William M. Hoza

arxiv:1611.00783 v5 · 2016-11-02 · cs.CC · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ME7PZTOWRUFFUPDLAC3NHTRSKR}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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	2026-05-18T00:13:22.194409Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

613efccdd68d0a5a3c6b00b6d3ce325472864b7a47aa2046305e64dd65464766

Aliases

arxiv: 1611.00783 · arxiv_version: 1611.00783v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1611.00783 · pith_short_12: ME7PZTOWRUFF · pith_short_16: ME7PZTOWRUFFUPDL · pith_short_8: ME7PZTOW

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/ME7PZTOWRUFFUPDLAC3NHTRSKR \
  | 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: 613efccdd68d0a5a3c6b00b6d3ce325472864b7a47aa2046305e64dd65464766

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e764079881cf9dbfbb313e13a6c41438110adf2e28e47f5a5af6dd01d81c6114",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CC",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-02T20:06:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6287cc1f9e0116f84f19b45af46db640ffdeba1e0ba3ec96ecd620402dee3afa"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1611.00783",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}