Pith Number

pith:CF2ZNUWE

pith:2026:CF2ZNUWE7VPUKHYIBFTERX65B6

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Constrained Path Reasoning: Measuring When Committed Stages Earn Their Cost

Honglin Li (ShanghaiTech University)

arxiv:2607.17240 v1 · 2026-07-19 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CF2ZNUWE7VPUKHYIBFTERX65B6}

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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	2026-07-21T01:21:23.378459Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

117596d2c4fd5f451f08096648dfdd0f9b0335727f9b4113d311c3300655655f

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.17240 · arxiv_version: 2607.17240v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.17240 · pith_short_12: CF2ZNUWE7VPU · pith_short_16: CF2ZNUWE7VPUKHYI · pith_short_8: CF2ZNUWE

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/CF2ZNUWE7VPUKHYIBFTERX65B6 \
  | 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: 117596d2c4fd5f451f08096648dfdd0f9b0335727f9b4113d311c3300655655f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "195b749da2389021fffa3b46777285e27a7fc99c33f1257e391629b9516ec171",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-19T13:11:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "34f394003a84d77e01d5828f771874cef626daf3f8f839e085ddcd7bb90a798a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.17240",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}