Pith Number

pith:G5BYRA2L

pith:2025:G5BYRA2LKDB7CGS5GZ2CD5YMIG

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Are We Merely Justifying Results ex Post Facto? Quantifying Explanatory Inversion in Post-Hoc Model Explanations

Huan Liu, Jundong Li, Song Wang, Tianlong Chen, Yifan Li, Yu Kong, Zhen Tan

arxiv:2504.08919 v1 · 2025-04-11 · cs.LG · cs.AI

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First computed	2026-07-05T10:48:01.640357Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

374388834b50c3f11a5d367421f70c4191b1451a96f3a9cf1b9782362537955c

Aliases

arxiv: 2504.08919 · arxiv_version: 2504.08919v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2504.08919 · pith_short_12: G5BYRA2LKDB7 · pith_short_16: G5BYRA2LKDB7CGS5 · pith_short_8: G5BYRA2L

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/G5BYRA2LKDB7CGS5GZ2CD5YMIG \
  | 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: 374388834b50c3f11a5d367421f70c4191b1451a96f3a9cf1b9782362537955c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2025-04-11T19:00:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d790fbb5a334395fd9b5a5b20ae9f11d6cceca7654a76e5ab7b3b8b5e02abe5d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2504.08919",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}