Pith Number

pith:3LCMPTRK

pith:2026:3LCMPTRKHIGUKLWLAXNIK5PNSO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

When to Answer and When to Defer: A Decision Framework for Reliable Code Predictions

Ravishka Rathnasuriya, Wei Yang

arxiv:2605.19369 v1 · 2026-05-19 · cs.SE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3LCMPTRKHIGUKLWLAXNIK5PNSO}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-20T01:05:41.762428Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dac4c7ce2a3a0d452ecb05da8575ed9385027c1612a83a8c7b8807c48f5552b0

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.19369 · arxiv_version: 2605.19369v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.19369 · pith_short_12: 3LCMPTRKHIGU · pith_short_16: 3LCMPTRKHIGUKLWL · pith_short_8: 3LCMPTRK

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/3LCMPTRKHIGUKLWLAXNIK5PNSO \
  | 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: dac4c7ce2a3a0d452ecb05da8575ed9385027c1612a83a8c7b8807c48f5552b0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6e8a40eebef0f7ae5f76b850fdc6abf89bb8003cd26e8a6969d4344540cd2b26",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-19T05:04:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b15e6fcfdb56bbb14163056efc90371c2b796e9742de5d616a5922d2a7e43ec4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.19369",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}