Pith Number

pith:CSVCIX3S

pith:2026:CSVCIX3SGYE4YE24EJACS2LOIR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Reasoning as Compression: Unifying Budget Forcing via the Conditional Information Bottleneck

Andrey Kuzmin, Arash Behboodi, Fabio Valerio Massoli

arxiv:2603.08462 v2 · 2026-03-09 · cs.LG

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CSVCIX3SGYE4YE24EJACS2LOIR}

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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	2026-05-20T00:05:42.949553Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

14aa245f723609cc135c224029696e44401ae143bbb8d1199029fce556d11d02

Aliases

arxiv: 2603.08462 · arxiv_version: 2603.08462v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2603.08462 · pith_short_12: CSVCIX3SGYE4 · pith_short_16: CSVCIX3SGYE4YE24 · pith_short_8: CSVCIX3S

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/CSVCIX3SGYE4YE24EJACS2LOIR \
  | 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: 14aa245f723609cc135c224029696e44401ae143bbb8d1199029fce556d11d02

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5d0e2b500785959110a968f3eb231e50d0956c31ea8886ca3891e59e2cfd8715",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-03-09T14:56:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4297b4e2dc42ac7c9465fea987d01a836cc8e8acad77ed2f338b46e2b17418ca"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2603.08462",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}