Pith Number

pith:56DCKPLI

pith:2019:56DCKPLIZOK7OGZUWF5P7YKYGY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

WriterForcing: Generating more interesting story endings

Alan W Black, Mukul Bhutani, Prakhar Gupta, Vinayshekhar Bannihatti Kumar

arxiv:1907.08259 v1 · 2019-07-18 · cs.LG · cs.CL · stat.ML

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{56DCKPLIZOK7OGZUWF5P7YKYGY}

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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	2026-05-17T23:40:10.401900Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ef86253d68cb95f71b34b17affe158363a1c011e73e51b4da9a8cc11dcbee507

Aliases

arxiv: 1907.08259 · arxiv_version: 1907.08259v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1907.08259 · pith_short_12: 56DCKPLIZOK7 · pith_short_16: 56DCKPLIZOK7OGZU · pith_short_8: 56DCKPLI

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/56DCKPLIZOK7OGZUWF5P7YKYGY \
  | 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: ef86253d68cb95f71b34b17affe158363a1c011e73e51b4da9a8cc11dcbee507

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1856b8fe4c9bd6c175f6ee022680b224208605984a48907f5ec3e7e6dfbf3507",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2019-07-18T19:29:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "09c5eb5c43ca3f12555720b5ca04114949645b5fb2f8c41198da0206aaa8c09e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1907.08259",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}