Pith Number

pith:CD7AYTQ4

pith:2025:CD7AYTQ4BROY4T6LWCGRRFFXQV

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An Appraisal-Based Approach to Human-Centred Explanations

Madhawa Perera, Matt Adcock, Rukshani Somarathna, Tom Gedeon

arxiv:2508.01388 v1 · 2025-08-02 · cs.HC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CD7AYTQ4BROY4T6LWCGRRFFXQV}

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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	2026-07-05T11:47:38.436951Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

10fe0c4e1c0c5d8e4fcbb08d1894b7857bbb112375d4037a591f43325e3535c5

Aliases

arxiv: 2508.01388 · arxiv_version: 2508.01388v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2508.01388 · pith_short_12: CD7AYTQ4BROY · pith_short_16: CD7AYTQ4BROY4T6L · pith_short_8: CD7AYTQ4

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/CD7AYTQ4BROY4T6LWCGRRFFXQV \
  | 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: 10fe0c4e1c0c5d8e4fcbb08d1894b7857bbb112375d4037a591f43325e3535c5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5113f41050b4b3e1cb025c36902abd03d0b38a9bac5425c856f0958aad128447",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.HC",
    "submitted_at": "2025-08-02T14:34:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2790fadcb628e7a79e22f4b27c8aaf246c7a413efbb10292ac368a011e397311"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2508.01388",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}