Pith Number

pith:6DVZYKDL

pith:2021:6DVZYKDLMFYGQUEQYJYG3IANDC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Explaining the Road Not Taken

Hua Shen, Ting-Hao 'Kenneth' Huang

arxiv:2103.14973 v2 · 2021-03-27 · cs.CL · cs.AI · cs.HC · cs.LG

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6DVZYKDLMFYGQUEQYJYG3IANDC}

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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	2026-07-05T02:27:46.239637Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f0eb9c286b6170685090c2706da00d188834a6ae251018f89fd93f2347c62bec

Aliases

arxiv: 2103.14973 · arxiv_version: 2103.14973v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2103.14973 · pith_short_12: 6DVZYKDLMFYG · pith_short_16: 6DVZYKDLMFYGQUEQ · pith_short_8: 6DVZYKDL

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/6DVZYKDLMFYGQUEQYJYG3IANDC \
  | 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: f0eb9c286b6170685090c2706da00d188834a6ae251018f89fd93f2347c62bec

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "627e2b07a81c946a5410812879698dea6cc725b35f2957f2fdd62afa4f724912",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.HC",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2021-03-27T19:47:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cdf4516cfee4c08ca67b0bfc41230b1bdaf369560365bae79f2dea7c575cafee"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2103.14973",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}