Pith Number

pith:JHNYXAV7

pith:2026:JHNYXAV7DHRKZX5ZGZC55RTP6X

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The Weight of Silence: A Causal Case for Weights Over the Scratchpad in Latent Chess Reasoning

Ishan S. Kshirsagar

arxiv:2607.20952 v1 · 2026-07-23 · cs.LG · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JHNYXAV7DHRKZX5ZGZC55RTP6X}

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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	2026-07-24T01:23:43.871408Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

49db8b82bf19e2acdfb93645dec66ff5c4b75de4930c43a0e8003dad0a2d9bf6

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.20952 · arxiv_version: 2607.20952v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.20952 · pith_short_12: JHNYXAV7DHRK · pith_short_16: JHNYXAV7DHRKZX5Z · pith_short_8: JHNYXAV7

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/JHNYXAV7DHRKZX5ZGZC55RTP6X \
  | 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: 49db8b82bf19e2acdfb93645dec66ff5c4b75de4930c43a0e8003dad0a2d9bf6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9f7503d7fab5ab23949b4db937ac5959c739f21da0f481bf5f9caacd8175b600",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-23T06:18:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8220cd7dbe586670be9c852b7e35b1f3c8b7e9d9438b249b555543dab53e0dd1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.20952",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}