Pith Number

pith:55WDFCJF

pith:2025:55WDFCJFW235ELO3GNW5XFFXMS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Algorithmic Tradeoffs, Applied NLP, and the State-of-the-Art Fallacy

AJ Alvero, David Lang, Klint Kanopka, Ruohong Dong

arxiv:2509.08199 v1 · 2025-09-10 · cs.CY · stat.AP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{55WDFCJFW235ELO3GNW5XFFXMS}

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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	2026-07-05T12:08:24.830577Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ef6c328925b6b7d22ddb336ddb94b7649544cc7eba0b6049b9f194c3977a0dd1

Aliases

arxiv: 2509.08199 · arxiv_version: 2509.08199v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2509.08199 · pith_short_12: 55WDFCJFW235 · pith_short_16: 55WDFCJFW235ELO3 · pith_short_8: 55WDFCJF

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/55WDFCJFW235ELO3GNW5XFFXMS \
  | 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: ef6c328925b6b7d22ddb336ddb94b7649544cc7eba0b6049b9f194c3977a0dd1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d3629a8e69a68ef9bc2f03deffe6b2c7fd96e69927ff37db564458ddccd9f409",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.AP"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2025-09-10T00:04:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "50dbcacbf83f3fbd9e64d64666f4e7aa5a1e8e162f6e828510f6cad119406955"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2509.08199",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}