Pith Number

pith:GENG3UV7

pith:2026:GENG3UV7WCVL5JGOZGITGXDVQ6

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Contextualized Dynamic Explanations: A Vision

Greg Briskin, Jason H Li, Zhicheng Liu

arxiv:2605.18698 v1 · 2026-05-18 · cs.HC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GENG3UV7WCVL5JGOZGITGXDVQ6}

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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	2026-05-20T00:06:15.617534Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

311a6dd2bfb0aabea4cec991335c7587b9863ac7edb0366d6501227ab8d5a2d8

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.18698 · arxiv_version: 2605.18698v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.18698 · pith_short_12: GENG3UV7WCVL · pith_short_16: GENG3UV7WCVL5JGO · pith_short_8: GENG3UV7

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/GENG3UV7WCVL5JGOZGITGXDVQ6 \
  | 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: 311a6dd2bfb0aabea4cec991335c7587b9863ac7edb0366d6501227ab8d5a2d8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "610a7a6993e88c51b29dc264ad0e9623f3436f6a2173ffe7d9201fede1978116",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.HC",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-18T17:34:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fe71a05e3713dd1acf14586a3c9cf293dcc63832a9babfaf4087af6f6be539b2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.18698",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}