Pith Number

pith:EUTHUZPZ

pith:2026:EUTHUZPZPUU3VKIXTMURTZFJ5E

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An Internet for the KV Cache: Rethinking Classical Infrastructure Boundaries in the LLM Inference Age

Junchen Jiang, Nick Feamster, Siddhant Ray

arxiv:2608.01526 v1 · 2026-08-02 · cs.NI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EUTHUZPZPUU3VKIXTMURTZFJ5E}

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4 Citations open

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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	2026-08-04T02:05:48.470770Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

25267a65f97d29baa9179b2919e4a9e90a70a5c15f7af917874831a820df2259

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.01526 · arxiv_version: 2608.01526v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.01526 · pith_short_12: EUTHUZPZPUU3 · pith_short_16: EUTHUZPZPUU3VKIX · pith_short_8: EUTHUZPZ

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/EUTHUZPZPUU3VKIXTMURTZFJ5E \
  | 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: 25267a65f97d29baa9179b2919e4a9e90a70a5c15f7af917874831a820df2259

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f0ee9579f8f4c6e22ad03682d0e00d97118762a4e08e3fc39050704ada23088e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-02T22:31:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ed02688437a1dee65d21170def56e82e3aa43989564e9e029bbfbe2dbd1bc2fb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.01526",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}