Pith Number

pith:2MG4JL2P

pith:2024:2MG4JL2PK6UADDDZHTF5FT4RDM

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Everything that can be learned about a causal structure with latent variables by observational and interventional probing schemes

Elie Wolfe, Marina Maciel Ansanelli, Robert W. Spekkens

arxiv:2407.01686 v1 · 2024-07-01 · stat.ML · cs.LG · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2MG4JL2PK6UADDDZHTF5FT4RDM}

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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	2026-07-05T08:39:03.717977Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d30dc4af4f57a8018c793ccbd2cf911b08872069b56b26f992969685f4aac784

Aliases

arxiv: 2407.01686 · arxiv_version: 2407.01686v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2407.01686 · pith_short_12: 2MG4JL2PK6UA · pith_short_16: 2MG4JL2PK6UADDDZ · pith_short_8: 2MG4JL2P

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/2MG4JL2PK6UADDDZHTF5FT4RDM \
  | 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: d30dc4af4f57a8018c793ccbd2cf911b08872069b56b26f992969685f4aac784

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a10250c8aea7e2a2c335ff045224e5c624caeacf41ba0af5ee7dcadd4df51648",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2024-07-01T18:01:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0421d9899e54d8a5e97f872e6a7546141679d855f75894882b9ff98afecafe01"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2407.01686",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}