Pith Number

pith:3YSN2GXH

pith:2017:3YSN2GXHX42UBAZSSJPVZBMUAU

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The cognitive roots of regularization in language

Kenny Smith, Simon Kirby, Vanessa Ferdinand

arxiv:1703.03442 v2 · 2017-03-09 · cs.CL · q-bio.NC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3YSN2GXHX42UBAZSSJPVZBMUAU}

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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	2026-05-18T00:02:50.007086Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

de24dd1ae7bf35408332925f5c85940515f47b9820de4d00414e41e3922b481a

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.03442 · arxiv_version: 1703.03442v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.03442 · pith_short_12: 3YSN2GXHX42U · pith_short_16: 3YSN2GXHX42UBAZS · pith_short_8: 3YSN2GXH

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/3YSN2GXHX42UBAZSSJPVZBMUAU \
  | 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: de24dd1ae7bf35408332925f5c85940515f47b9820de4d00414e41e3922b481a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "12dcaf1d8f19577a28124f6c04500c656045236f33ee0f9a97f76df61814fc99",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-bio.NC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-09T19:50:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "909bfe13daf7b105f2c5ca99aa99be7deb97a3be2ec0a3ce2f899ffd00521dd2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.03442",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}