Pith Number

pith:7CJFFIR7

pith:2024:7CJFFIR7QVZH6UOTKDAT4VI37D

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A surprisal oracle for when every layer counts

Asad Sayeed, Sharid Lo\'aiciga, Xudong Hong

arxiv:2412.03098 v1 · 2024-12-04 · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7CJFFIR7QVZH6UOTKDAT4VI37D}

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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	2026-07-05T09:44:24.929810Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f89252a23f85727f51d350c13e551bf8f7efa820ffb33bbc53936292fb4d47bb

Aliases

arxiv: 2412.03098 · arxiv_version: 2412.03098v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2412.03098 · pith_short_12: 7CJFFIR7QVZH · pith_short_16: 7CJFFIR7QVZH6UOT · pith_short_8: 7CJFFIR7

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/7CJFFIR7QVZH6UOTKDAT4VI37D \
  | 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: f89252a23f85727f51d350c13e551bf8f7efa820ffb33bbc53936292fb4d47bb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0c46dd95bae698d642c6ffaf47d27ea307334b29f7a6e3b26fab85d9e55bf0ce",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2024-12-04T07:53:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9ffa806f6146224ab1521b225d8037ce5c9ffbf7c8f32157d0f341f3098c2bd5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2412.03098",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}