Pith Number

pith:AXQU2MYZ

pith:2026:AXQU2MYZSMX56ZLNSGTIF6JQNY

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The Simulacrum: Decision-Theoretic Pretraining for Near-Optimal Time-Series Forecasting and Inference

Marcel Scharth, Pablo Montero-Manso

arxiv:2606.27711 v1 · 2026-06-26 · cs.LG · cs.AI · stat.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AXQU2MYZSMX56ZLNSGTIF6JQNY}

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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	2026-06-29T01:14:46.097625Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

05e14d3319932fdf656d91a682f9306e02254835e36138a125eccc203068f228

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.27711 · arxiv_version: 2606.27711v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.27711 · pith_short_12: AXQU2MYZSMX5 · pith_short_16: AXQU2MYZSMX56ZLN · pith_short_8: AXQU2MYZ

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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/AXQU2MYZSMX56ZLNSGTIF6JQNY \
  | 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: 05e14d3319932fdf656d91a682f9306e02254835e36138a125eccc203068f228

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a361f3650d219a52c6ebc3ccbbe751070962d29dce5d5b7a394ece2df16c7af2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "stat.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-26T04:25:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e68eaa9a3d189cf6cc7eb54355c461ecb433bc48cf4463d6585f7af27ef7d9a3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.27711",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}