Pith Number

pith:4T55DM75

pith:2026:4T55DM75PHHEWLD4YJ7PXVOM4F

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Mechanistic Foundations of Goal-Directed Control

Alma Lago

arxiv:2603.15248 v2 · 2026-03-16 · cs.LG

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4T55DM75PHHEWLD4YJ7PXVOM4F}

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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	2026-07-07T21:18:20.489591Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e4fbd1b3fd79ce4b2c7cc27efbd5cce1630826198b1af2bdf194a7846d276d5e

Aliases

arxiv: 2603.15248 · arxiv_version: 2603.15248v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2603.15248 · pith_short_12: 4T55DM75PHHE · pith_short_16: 4T55DM75PHHEWLD4 · pith_short_8: 4T55DM75

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/4T55DM75PHHEWLD4YJ7PXVOM4F \
  | 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: e4fbd1b3fd79ce4b2c7cc27efbd5cce1630826198b1af2bdf194a7846d276d5e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "261e37d0c7aa64b4e087071b2601042c266c5e859755a268ad53bd2064e62887",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-03-16T13:19:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "14cd84e63884e4bf690152ecc5ee921ddd1d746ece6e848ab064cc4059ed9645"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2603.15248",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}