Pith Number

pith:BJAQSGEC

pith:2018:BJAQSGECFIKLXOL74IP33TCGOH

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Explaining Explanations in AI

Brent Mittelstadt, Chris Russell, Sandra Wachter

arxiv:1811.01439 v1 · 2018-11-04 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BJAQSGECFIKLXOL74IP33TCGOH}

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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.

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:01:34.317624Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0a410918822a14bbb97fe21fbdcc4671c09f30bb0153adeb20ae8ca8d427c76c

Aliases

arxiv: 1811.01439 · arxiv_version: 1811.01439v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1811.01439 · pith_short_12: BJAQSGECFIKL · pith_short_16: BJAQSGECFIKLXOL7 · pith_short_8: BJAQSGEC

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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/BJAQSGECFIKLXOL74IP33TCGOH \
  | 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: 0a410918822a14bbb97fe21fbdcc4671c09f30bb0153adeb20ae8ca8d427c76c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "55c6fd10d38a323d9b61e01b4520d49ee214f19ce30c125b45e9141e4b7591f3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2018-11-04T21:35:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2f5cd845e2c48ea2f0a1249455eb06cb34a1ab090958d4a2c978e76d3e8a2546"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1811.01439",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}