Pith Number

pith:W4RIRBCJ

pith:2016:W4RIRBCJOHTU3RWLIP4X3AW7BZ

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A Unified Maximum Likelihood Approach for Optimal Distribution Property Estimation

Alon Orlitsky, Ananda Theertha Suresh, Hirakendu Das, Jayadev Acharya

arxiv:1611.02960 v2 · 2016-11-09 · cs.IT · cs.DS · cs.LG · math.IT

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\pithnumber{W4RIRBCJOHTU3RWLIP4X3AW7BZ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:56:30.417418Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b72288844971e74dc6cb43f97d82df0e64b18923f3d0ba06eb3accee63ac39a6

Aliases

arxiv: 1611.02960 · arxiv_version: 1611.02960v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1611.02960 · pith_short_12: W4RIRBCJOHTU · pith_short_16: W4RIRBCJOHTU3RWL · pith_short_8: W4RIRBCJ

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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/W4RIRBCJOHTU3RWLIP4X3AW7BZ \
  | 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: b72288844971e74dc6cb43f97d82df0e64b18923f3d0ba06eb3accee63ac39a6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1d38bb543c2da2061677f29cb535db4f578347f47ca452c79ae1d0f6f5eb0a8e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS",
      "cs.LG",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-09T14:59:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bd9898bfdab7b0637b325392579b7d3dd8cb9ce9965af840863fbcbeef30deca"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1611.02960",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}