Pith Number

pith:IYRT3JLR

pith:2026:IYRT3JLRMBSRXZQXWFT46N2673

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Forgetting is Not Erasure: Recovering Latent Knowledge via Transport Keys

Archie Chaudhury

arxiv:2606.02860 v1 · 2026-06-01 · cs.LG · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IYRT3JLRMBSRXZQXWFT46N2673}

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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	2026-06-03T01:05:24.807751Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

46233da57160651be617b167cf375efeffb06f8b176584322d4aeeb9831f6407

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.02860 · arxiv_version: 2606.02860v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.02860 · pith_short_12: IYRT3JLRMBSR · pith_short_16: IYRT3JLRMBSRXZQX · pith_short_8: IYRT3JLR

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/IYRT3JLRMBSRXZQXWFT46N2673 \
  | 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: 46233da57160651be617b167cf375efeffb06f8b176584322d4aeeb9831f6407

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "06bda214d39c8d8a15f8be7e086d980847742f3d168c05372fc2cf827f1b8492",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-01T20:22:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a963ecc2314ebb756012ead0c036978d3f1658ae379db93cd43fc462686e1d76"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.02860",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}