Pith Number

pith:Q573X4GR

pith:2017:Q573X4GRMJQDVDVW6Q3D35EZ4G

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A Distortion Based Approach for Protecting Inferences

Chi-Yo Tsai, Christina Fragouli, Gaurav Kumar Agarwal, Suhas Diggavi

arxiv:1703.00482 v2 · 2017-03-01 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Q573X4GRMJQDVDVW6Q3D35EZ4G}

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4 Citations 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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:44:57.239871Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

877fbbf0d162603a8eb6f4363df499e19e7ac520f725eb0d5eb262f28ae8e56b

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.00482 · arxiv_version: 1703.00482v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.00482 · pith_short_12: Q573X4GRMJQD · pith_short_16: Q573X4GRMJQDVDVW · pith_short_8: Q573X4GR

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/Q573X4GRMJQDVDVW6Q3D35EZ4G \
  | 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: 877fbbf0d162603a8eb6f4363df499e19e7ac520f725eb0d5eb262f28ae8e56b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1d69e02e80765b31f96de4abbedbdc6688bd5a960e1c476cbc57db9b27d4d753",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-01T20:04:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8e50f348a87a2a6c326bfea242883a13eed4667effbe127d746c901f3eaa95e9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.00482",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}