Pith Number

pith:YOEYO5LK

pith:2026:YOEYO5LK4E6KMSTDR7D6RTDMOF

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Fast approximate Bayesian multidimensional scaling with consistency guarantees

Aaron Smith, Ami Sheth, Andrew J. Holbrook

arxiv:2605.30687 v1 · 2026-05-29 · stat.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YOEYO5LK4E6KMSTDR7D6RTDMOF}

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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	2026-06-01T01:03:08.356156Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c38987756ae13ca64a638fc7e8cc6c71756ceee5a8a898acc5c6c97fc14b00d6

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.30687 · arxiv_version: 2605.30687v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.30687 · pith_short_12: YOEYO5LK4E6K · pith_short_16: YOEYO5LK4E6KMSTD · pith_short_8: YOEYO5LK

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/YOEYO5LK4E6KMSTDR7D6RTDMOF \
  | 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: c38987756ae13ca64a638fc7e8cc6c71756ceee5a8a898acc5c6c97fc14b00d6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c6fdfbdb601dfe23d42fe8ecca5f5fa2fa0c6474861a040cb44bf0491567f301",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-29T00:30:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "02f1ac4a1ad188293f0f62552025cf5ca7b3e6a9d8bde62e1fc0a123579894e8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.30687",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}