Pith Number

pith:AUHIDRKV

pith:2025:AUHIDRKVF3JNOLU5FPVEO7NHQF

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The Algorithm Is Not the Behavior: Learned Priors Override Look-Ahead in a Chess-Playing Neural Network

Elias Sandmann, Sebastian Lapuschkin, Wojciech Samek

arxiv:2508.21380 v3 · 2025-08-29 · cs.LG · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AUHIDRKVF3JNOLU5FPVEO7NHQF}

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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	2026-06-11T01:09:16.402759Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

050e81c5552ed2d72e9d2bea477da7816f74cec6f5d47ec9a71b00f48bbd9619

Aliases

arxiv: 2508.21380 · arxiv_version: 2508.21380v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2508.21380 · pith_short_12: AUHIDRKVF3JN · pith_short_16: AUHIDRKVF3JNOLU5 · pith_short_8: AUHIDRKV

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/AUHIDRKVF3JNOLU5FPVEO7NHQF \
  | 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: 050e81c5552ed2d72e9d2bea477da7816f74cec6f5d47ec9a71b00f48bbd9619

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ac1ce1876dee478deae01e470587dc4035ea98dfa111685ed15c65d3f8d0edd3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2025-08-29T07:51:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "05b6f21ff7ff30dc5a10e4bddf0145918d737f26b1a57a8a2160687a1e635450"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2508.21380",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}