Pith Number

pith:DLCEELPU

pith:2025:DLCEELPUOS3EY7TFX6S2YAAGNP

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Mechanistic Interpretability as Statistical Estimation: A Variance Analysis

Fran\c{c}ois Portet, Maxime M\'eloux, Maxime Peyrard

arxiv:2510.00845 v4 · 2025-10-01 · cs.LG · cs.AI · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DLCEELPUOS3EY7TFX6S2YAAGNP}

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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.

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First computed	2026-06-01T01:02:22.133269Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1ac4422df474b64c7e65bfa5ac00066bdf43aa30bd32bfc7c93e9ef4d3ee8ca8

Aliases

arxiv: 2510.00845 · arxiv_version: 2510.00845v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2510.00845 · pith_short_12: DLCEELPUOS3E · pith_short_16: DLCEELPUOS3EY7TF · pith_short_8: DLCEELPU

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/DLCEELPUOS3EY7TFX6S2YAAGNP \
  | 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: 1ac4422df474b64c7e65bfa5ac00066bdf43aa30bd32bfc7c93e9ef4d3ee8ca8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "11092de9aea5fa6e2a8c7f3d9aa7f2dd2df405b678b34845b493c406e9c87487",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2025-10-01T12:55:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8e671c1866b828e82e5987d183cfec1c4a9c7657852c57f1c8cc5445b02b32ab"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2510.00845",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}