Pith Number

pith:MLBRJZOI

pith:2012:MLBRJZOI7FDZOKFWGAOUR75FVM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Inverse problems in approximate uniform generation

Anindya De, Ilias Diakonikolas, Rocco A. Servedio

arxiv:1211.1722 v1 · 2012-11-07 · cs.CC · cs.DS · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MLBRJZOI7FDZOKFWGAOUR75FVM}

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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	2026-05-18T03:41:19.688613Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

62c314e5c8f9479728b6301d48ffa5ab0d58eacba99ca2fad0dfcedc819f59ce

Aliases

arxiv: 1211.1722 · arxiv_version: 1211.1722v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1211.1722 · pith_short_12: MLBRJZOI7FDZ · pith_short_16: MLBRJZOI7FDZOKFW · pith_short_8: MLBRJZOI

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/MLBRJZOI7FDZOKFWGAOUR75FVM \
  | 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: 62c314e5c8f9479728b6301d48ffa5ab0d58eacba99ca2fad0dfcedc819f59ce

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5fa4d86edf22adb5e2e907dc4ae78b6f6135c0c1627b52305f204cfd7e5f3a47",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CC",
    "submitted_at": "2012-11-07T23:12:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b7742f4ac8aadbd7dff69d63dcac5b7a711c0569101aec2c29bcda94c131af61"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1211.1722",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}