Pith Number

pith:QCZZQL5V

pith:2017:QCZZQL5VUEGCSFT3GUZITSAMGK

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Crowdsourced correlation clustering with relative distance comparisons

Antti Ukkonen

arxiv:1709.08459 v1 · 2017-09-25 · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QCZZQL5VUEGCSFT3GUZITSAMGK}

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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	2026-05-18T00:34:25.577630Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

80b3982fb5a10c29167b353289c80c3280522db290348e373355e383ab6be3c3

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.08459 · arxiv_version: 1709.08459v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.08459 · pith_short_12: QCZZQL5VUEGC · pith_short_16: QCZZQL5VUEGCSFT3 · pith_short_8: QCZZQL5V

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/QCZZQL5VUEGCSFT3GUZITSAMGK \
  | 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: 80b3982fb5a10c29167b353289c80c3280522db290348e373355e383ab6be3c3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "16f4a0fad55d8afd0d99291d973145fce1af0b15b9f57fba447c4f9aa70e77a7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-25T12:51:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "56751f3d153b3e1a402fff61a24ac5d1ba18bb0ce5d67062722502eecc01bc5b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.08459",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}