Pith Number

pith:GFQRV3Y2

pith:2025:GFQRV3Y2B3JV4ECT6HY52HCJH5

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What Were You Thinking? An LLM-Driven Large-Scale Study of Refactoring Motivations in Open-Source Projects

Fabio Palomba, Matteo Esposito, Mikel Robredo, Rafael Pe\~naloza, Valentina Lenarduzzi

arxiv:2509.07763 v1 · 2025-09-09 · cs.SE · cs.AI · cs.PL

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First computed	2026-07-05T12:07:27.755152Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

31611aef1a0ed35e1053f1f1dd1c493f5456043b2754d29c9f996d90cac6ad60

Aliases

arxiv: 2509.07763 · arxiv_version: 2509.07763v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2509.07763 · pith_short_12: GFQRV3Y2B3JV · pith_short_16: GFQRV3Y2B3JV4ECT · pith_short_8: GFQRV3Y2

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/GFQRV3Y2B3JV4ECT6HY52HCJH5 \
  | 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: 31611aef1a0ed35e1053f1f1dd1c493f5456043b2754d29c9f996d90cac6ad60

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.PL"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2025-09-09T13:58:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "65beccb719410a68681d9f33b357d279ba8e52a6d44514f03a53716fe43f0e13"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}