Pith Number

pith:AFFFWIK2

pith:2026:AFFFWIK2E4NRHDJR2HXDB6ENRD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Bayesian and Motivated Reasoning in AI Agents

Eddie Yang

arxiv:2608.00339 v1 · 2026-07-31 · cs.AI · cs.CL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AFFFWIK2E4NRHDJR2HXDB6ENRD}

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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	2026-08-04T00:35:07.492646Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

014a5b215a271b138d31d1ee30f88d88c0f1907385d000f6e7b61810e00ad313

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.00339 · arxiv_version: 2608.00339v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.00339 · pith_short_12: AFFFWIK2E4NR · pith_short_16: AFFFWIK2E4NRHDJR · pith_short_8: AFFFWIK2

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/AFFFWIK2E4NRHDJR2HXDB6ENRD \
  | 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: 014a5b215a271b138d31d1ee30f88d88c0f1907385d000f6e7b61810e00ad313

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e58bd77fa0bfe84c78133dedbae72964d24df01c15759c899f0aabf1d1802629",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-31T23:02:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "923b6338aa0a1052285246a4d4db6559120d07e085df30594639e04dbea02139"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.00339",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}