Pith Number

pith:IH5Q6ROC

pith:2026:IH5Q6ROCP5LLXUMKPQWXVSHUGF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Optimization Is Not All You Need

Minh Hua, Rita Raley

arxiv:2607.11977 v1 · 2026-07-13 · cs.AI · cs.CL

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IH5Q6ROCP5LLXUMKPQWXVSHUGF}

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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	2026-07-15T00:21:25.712424Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

41fb0f45c27f56bbd18a7c2d7ac8f4317e1ad70425635ad9d61883e8993a275e

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.11977 · arxiv_version: 2607.11977v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.11977 · pith_short_12: IH5Q6ROCP5LL · pith_short_16: IH5Q6ROCP5LLXUMK · pith_short_8: IH5Q6ROC

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/IH5Q6ROCP5LLXUMKPQWXVSHUGF \
  | 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: 41fb0f45c27f56bbd18a7c2d7ac8f4317e1ad70425635ad9d61883e8993a275e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7be35d1c1713ac9717924759eb418d5c905d93a2b7ca93440d09bead9b312a52",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-13T05:32:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d0b41eb4ffd75f268941cfe1775558def2ae11856cdce5c78108f46468b45240"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.11977",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}