Pith Number

pith:47UXVS5E

pith:2026:47UXVS5EGI34LCTPRIPV26JUF6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Latent Thought Credit: Multi-Answer Credit Assignment for Latent Reasoning

Liting Zhang, Qicheng Li, Shiwan Zhao, Wenjia Zeng, Xuyang Zhao, Yong Chen, Zichen Xu

arxiv:2608.01593 v1 · 2026-08-03 · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{47UXVS5EGI34LCTPRIPV26JUF6}

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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	2026-08-04T02:06:05.673432Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e7e97acba43237c58a6f8a1f5d79342f8bfcda03c7e5f766153375437d2d75dc

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.01593 · arxiv_version: 2608.01593v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.01593 · pith_short_12: 47UXVS5EGI34 · pith_short_16: 47UXVS5EGI34LCTP · pith_short_8: 47UXVS5E

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/47UXVS5EGI34LCTPRIPV26JUF6 \
  | 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: e7e97acba43237c58a6f8a1f5d79342f8bfcda03c7e5f766153375437d2d75dc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "97cc4b0d62c0726ceb586cc1b1e30a5d615d50ab6d817651929250e1eb27d8e0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-03T01:57:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2708980585ece87eeadfb3c9cea7d7a6e7a16e93fb2324ecfab6e2df22dd445e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.01593",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}