Pith Number

pith:IWLRLFCO

pith:2026:IWLRLFCOFWX4KKSQN43CX3J5FX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Foundational values for foundation models

Elodie Germani, John S. H. Baxter

arxiv:2608.09377 v1 · 2026-08-10 · cs.CY

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IWLRLFCOFWX4KKSQN43CX3J5FX}

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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	2026-08-11T02:22:27.673287Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

459715944e2dafc52a506f362bed3d2dedd1eb7af224b20aba523a0303d00891

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.09377 · arxiv_version: 2608.09377v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.09377 · pith_short_12: IWLRLFCOFWX4 · pith_short_16: IWLRLFCOFWX4KKSQ · pith_short_8: IWLRLFCO

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/IWLRLFCOFWX4KKSQN43CX3J5FX \
  | 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: 459715944e2dafc52a506f362bed3d2dedd1eb7af224b20aba523a0303d00891

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0b9a46a8b4ec5fb9a5d194ff002307d7b621b87e70779f6dc6e1c5a8867af70b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-10T09:56:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5711171504ded3a1eea870937f158ae32f87a6dcee410522e37eeb30482f5ec7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.09377",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}