Pith Number

pith:CBYCBP2H

pith:2026:CBYCBP2HPJWZ74RKEBYMUGDQSL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Chain-of-Thought Shows the Path to a Tree: Realizing Branching Complexity

Anish Chakrabarty, Debanjan Dutta, Swagatam Das

arxiv:2608.11716 v1 · 2026-08-12 · cs.LG

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CBYCBP2HPJWZ74RKEBYMUGDQSL}

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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	2026-08-13T01:27:54.748514Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

107020bf477a6d9ff22a2070ca187092d222811367044dfd091c60eb5e3347cc

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.11716 · arxiv_version: 2608.11716v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.11716 · pith_short_12: CBYCBP2HPJWZ · pith_short_16: CBYCBP2HPJWZ74RK · pith_short_8: CBYCBP2H

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/CBYCBP2HPJWZ74RKEBYMUGDQSL \
  | 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: 107020bf477a6d9ff22a2070ca187092d222811367044dfd091c60eb5e3347cc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6de17064f398282fb39b145d3dc9b7eaf3bdf17e9cc66944045b28d6c4e05b0f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-12T06:57:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9fbbf72009440bd6069f1cd0b524c600fdbae5f8c68ff7218099066456a304d1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.11716",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}