Pith Number

pith:GHX4G5UA

pith:2026:GHX4G5UAOD5TIRBWQAW6BQYW2Q

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Scout: Scalable Document Extraction via Data Similarity

Aditya G. Parameswaran, Chiyu Hao, Shreya Shankar, Yiming Lin

arxiv:2608.08261 v1 · 2026-08-08 · cs.DB

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GHX4G5UAOD5TIRBWQAW6BQYW2Q}

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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	2026-08-11T01:22:09.242240Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

31efc3768070fb344436802de0c316d40b180076a97a0fa0cfb427887112d522

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.08261 · arxiv_version: 2608.08261v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.08261 · pith_short_12: GHX4G5UAOD5T · pith_short_16: GHX4G5UAOD5TIRBW · pith_short_8: GHX4G5UA

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/GHX4G5UAOD5TIRBWQAW6BQYW2Q \
  | 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: 31efc3768070fb344436802de0c316d40b180076a97a0fa0cfb427887112d522

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "447542a3d200332139cb7730a39aabf7267651d89e225ac956c5f081328fa12d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DB",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-08T17:47:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a4858b6bd854b5b39c46edb694f2b4f2e5caf424c69f3e29de6881c9fd281cc5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.08261",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}