Pith Number

pith:FUTCSY4G

pith:2025:FUTCSY4G7NVHHLSX765QHQDBTS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Direct-Scoring NLG Evaluators Can Use Pairwise Comparisons Too

Alexander Shelton, Ashton Williamson, Logan Lawrence

arxiv:2509.05440 v1 · 2025-09-05 · cs.CL · cs.AI · cs.LG

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FUTCSY4G7NVHHLSX765QHQDBTS}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-07-05T12:05:47.648591Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2d26296386fb6a73ae57ffbb03c0619c90d585b16fc4bb9d3cc55142e694ccae

Aliases

arxiv: 2509.05440 · arxiv_version: 2509.05440v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2509.05440 · pith_short_12: FUTCSY4G7NVH · pith_short_16: FUTCSY4G7NVHHLSX · pith_short_8: FUTCSY4G

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/FUTCSY4G7NVHHLSX765QHQDBTS \
  | 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: 2d26296386fb6a73ae57ffbb03c0619c90d585b16fc4bb9d3cc55142e694ccae

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "70d12c511d8111326c0f2ef2b0cf57b37a633b18aae213ed2a7a0158c46c1bb6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2025-09-05T18:48:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ee65bc5467095b1744dcb18431de2a15706ac2cb3dddbb5bb9360d89530f5dd3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2509.05440",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}