Pith Number

pith:IZSENPEQ

pith:2024:IZSENPEQYLVWYBVGZO6MBPXPSQ

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Survival of the Fittest Representation: A Case Study with Modular Addition

Eric J. Michaud, Max Tegmark, Xiaoman Delores Ding, Zifan Carl Guo, Ziming Liu

arxiv:2405.17420 v1 · 2024-05-27 · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IZSENPEQYLVWYBVGZO6MBPXPSQ}

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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	2026-07-05T08:23:44.173695Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

466446bc90c2eb6c06a6cbbcc0beef9411966a1bdc14b374627e0cfeeed9ff6d

Aliases

arxiv: 2405.17420 · arxiv_version: 2405.17420v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2405.17420 · pith_short_12: IZSENPEQYLVW · pith_short_16: IZSENPEQYLVWYBVG · pith_short_8: IZSENPEQ

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/IZSENPEQYLVWYBVGZO6MBPXPSQ \
  | 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: 466446bc90c2eb6c06a6cbbcc0beef9411966a1bdc14b374627e0cfeeed9ff6d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "643ab850d6a24ec883753195f6987bb2b03b7266dabdd462922d5f78bb528976",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2024-05-27T17:59:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a506cdd98eaee260dee5e4c8780cc451df8add7aaafcc0b9d6a3804d35a40bc1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2405.17420",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}