Pith Number

pith:CIPQ2BGS

pith:2026:CIPQ2BGSK6FRR2SIEBWHRZDMPL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Human-Less LLM Serving: Quantifying the Human Tax on Throughput

Dan Li, Jianhui Lian, Li Chen, Yong Jiang

arxiv:2606.20577 v1 · 2026-05-03 · cs.NI · cs.AI · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CIPQ2BGSK6FRR2SIEBWHRZDMPL}

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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	2026-06-23T00:11:50.369382Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

121f0d04d2578b18ea48206c78e46c7aecd2e8f7b78e50414e3565826b2242f1

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.20577 · arxiv_version: 2606.20577v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.20577 · pith_short_12: CIPQ2BGSK6FR · pith_short_16: CIPQ2BGSK6FRR2SI · pith_short_8: CIPQ2BGS

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/CIPQ2BGSK6FRR2SIEBWHRZDMPL \
  | 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: 121f0d04d2578b18ea48206c78e46c7aecd2e8f7b78e50414e3565826b2242f1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "db6e0c968861bfe344fc116c8e8da7646fb2a4581e89c51e0c424cffc23e5192",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.DC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-03T05:31:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4b22aaf28cf653616b8c41af6535f8b8e7f722226628a3600146e6b026281d70"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.20577",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}