Pith Number

pith:BM7KFQSM

pith:2026:BM7KFQSMCJTJNACMYHB7VN3RRW

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When Is Rank-1 Steering Cheap? Geometry, Granularity, and Budgeted Search

Haris Vikalo, Jianing Zhu, John T. Robertson, Zhangyang Wang

arxiv:2605.16362 v1 · 2026-05-09 · cs.LG · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BM7KFQSMCJTJNACMYHB7VN3RRW}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-20T00:02:18.400738Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0b3ea2c24c126696804cc1c3fab7718dbbe3eafd9ce74f38b12dbab3ef5a4717

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.16362 · arxiv_version: 2605.16362v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.16362 · pith_short_12: BM7KFQSMCJTJ · pith_short_16: BM7KFQSMCJTJNACM · pith_short_8: BM7KFQSM

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/BM7KFQSMCJTJNACMYHB7VN3RRW \
  | 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: 0b3ea2c24c126696804cc1c3fab7718dbbe3eafd9ce74f38b12dbab3ef5a4717

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "788a8702c2b431f8f68805f9cc959dd41b6dd6f381dfb732ff6fecc67397da4e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-09T14:26:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6341b2f620bd51b349551f69ae89280d17d62fca2b45d568c4a72f412d5ee787"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.16362",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}