Pith Number

pith:2PJ7YCWO

pith:2026:2PJ7YCWOO54HK7A6LEQK73LDF5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Position: RL Researchers Need to Distinguish Between Solving Simulators and Using Simulators as a Proxy

Esraa Elelimy, Martha White, Matthew Vandergrift

arxiv:2606.28433 v1 · 2026-06-26 · cs.LG

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2PJ7YCWOO54HK7A6LEQK73LDF5}

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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	2026-06-30T00:15:13.913233Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d3d3fc0ace7778757c1e5920afed632f5750400a6bf6e0a09b99465053f91bd0

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.28433 · arxiv_version: 2606.28433v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.28433 · pith_short_12: 2PJ7YCWOO54H · pith_short_16: 2PJ7YCWOO54HK7A6 · pith_short_8: 2PJ7YCWO

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/2PJ7YCWOO54HK7A6LEQK73LDF5 \
  | 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: d3d3fc0ace7778757c1e5920afed632f5750400a6bf6e0a09b99465053f91bd0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ccf9f75716e1d968f92be73ca708c0566a17b295e11ac136321eeab3c099250e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-26T03:19:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "dd12da443feb58a63ff6c8d16091f114171b063dbcd1d8e6a65ffac882c257b9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.28433",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}