Pith Number

pith:5EMVQTMK

pith:2025:5EMVQTMKXTEHORJS7RWFHRFXUG

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Which Is Better For Reducing Outdated and Vulnerable Dependencies: Pinning or Floating?

Imranur Rahman, Jill Marley, Laurie Williams, William Enck

arxiv:2510.08609 v3 · 2025-10-07 · cs.SE · cs.CR · cs.LG · cs.PL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5EMVQTMKXTEHORJS7RWFHRFXUG}

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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	2026-05-26T02:03:57.768189Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e919584d8abcc8774532fc6c53c4b7a1a4c383d3ab45365f39b6ea12931ce42a

Aliases

arxiv: 2510.08609 · arxiv_version: 2510.08609v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2510.08609 · pith_short_12: 5EMVQTMKXTEH · pith_short_16: 5EMVQTMKXTEHORJS · pith_short_8: 5EMVQTMK

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/5EMVQTMKXTEHORJS7RWFHRFXUG \
  | 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: e919584d8abcc8774532fc6c53c4b7a1a4c383d3ab45365f39b6ea12931ce42a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4f82e37cbc6c3888e18d814e19c7f14689d121fc2cab864131bc16588534fa47",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR",
      "cs.LG",
      "cs.PL"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2025-10-07T14:37:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1d3ff6cd2adda87c5eb8b39a69829876a8ec68c26e8e19b6820b885a26208dd7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2510.08609",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}