Pith Number

pith:XVGAWXKW

pith:2018:XVGAWXKWN4OMJFJTLMWCOW55IQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Approximate Ranking from Pairwise Comparisons

Kannan Ramchandran, Martin J. Wainwright, Max Simchowitz, Reinhard Heckel

arxiv:1801.01253 v1 · 2018-01-04 · cs.LG · cs.AI · cs.IT · math.IT · stat.ML

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XVGAWXKWN4OMJFJTLMWCOW55IQ}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T00:26:42.637482Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bd4c0b5d566f1cc495335b2c275bbd442f13269c9407a210784be954eb226340

Aliases

arxiv: 1801.01253 · arxiv_version: 1801.01253v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.01253 · pith_short_12: XVGAWXKWN4OM · pith_short_16: XVGAWXKWN4OMJFJT · pith_short_8: XVGAWXKW

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/XVGAWXKWN4OMJFJTLMWCOW55IQ \
  | 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: bd4c0b5d566f1cc495335b2c275bbd442f13269c9407a210784be954eb226340

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f4fc22c4e0c9e114b0225cc0379d083d2fbbe5e15dea6b370b17019a87698d2a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2018-01-04T06:18:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4e317ffa0fcc165e0d1a81c33e6cfee914c0045074358901242b5b8ed249f92e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1801.01253",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}