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pith:5IKEPLND

pith:2025:5IKEPLNDXCQZBOIRI5X3JJ2DHL

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Whither symbols in the era of advanced neural networks?

Brenden M. Lake, Ellie Pavlick, R. Thomas McCoy, Taylor W. Webb, Thomas L. Griffiths

arxiv:2508.05776 v1 · 2025-08-07 · cs.AI

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\pithnumber{5IKEPLNDXCQZBOIRI5X3JJ2DHL}

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:50:43.176347Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ea1447ada3b8a190b911476fb4a7433ae9bdcd018e807fd6b688888ba6d2873e

Aliases

arxiv: 2508.05776 · arxiv_version: 2508.05776v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2508.05776 · pith_short_12: 5IKEPLNDXCQZ · pith_short_16: 5IKEPLNDXCQZBOIR · pith_short_8: 5IKEPLND

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/5IKEPLNDXCQZBOIRI5X3JJ2DHL \
  | 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: ea1447ada3b8a190b911476fb4a7433ae9bdcd018e807fd6b688888ba6d2873e

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "37fdabc6648cd2e05a8f82ba49589279e3b423a2cbe19a1815d898166b22ad83",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2025-08-07T18:42:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b94d7427447208a226c374e3f455312ee966d79204f27e421d4999c1f9b5c4e6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2508.05776",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}