Pith Number

pith:H6VRCSPE

pith:2019:H6VRCSPER7AW4JW3YEALHCUE6Z

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Hidden Assumptions Behind Counterfactual Explanations and Principal Reasons

Andrew D. Selbst, Manish Raghavan, Solon Barocas

arxiv:1912.04930 v1 · 2019-12-10 · cs.CY

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{H6VRCSPER7AW4JW3YEALHCUE6Z}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-05T00:25:30.323341Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3fab1149e48fc16e26dbc100b38a84f643f9e330a7ce9e29fbf6ab028e9e7c3c

Aliases

arxiv: 1912.04930 · arxiv_version: 1912.04930v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1912.04930 · pith_short_12: H6VRCSPER7AW · pith_short_16: H6VRCSPER7AW4JW3 · pith_short_8: H6VRCSPE

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/H6VRCSPER7AW4JW3YEALHCUE6Z \
  | 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: 3fab1149e48fc16e26dbc100b38a84f643f9e330a7ce9e29fbf6ab028e9e7c3c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bba2f29cbebecf694ae9ebee0e37582a18c0c434c2babcfbf954cd657b8ce183",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2019-12-10T19:09:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e53bcb3988f28c37b3956199892dd4d07f4812162916507fbd2eee0eb8c10758"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1912.04930",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}