Pith Number

pith:JW6CQALK

pith:2026:JW6CQALKVMXLRZPGNMX2G7FXK7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

How Open Must Language Models be to Enable Reliable Scientific Inference?

Benjamin K. Bergen, Cameron R. Jones, Catherine Arnett, James A. Michaelov, Micah Altman, Pamela D. Rivi\`ere, Roger P. Levy, Samuel M. Taylor, Sean Trott, Tyler A. Chang

arxiv:2603.26539 v2 · 2026-03-27 · cs.CL · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JW6CQALKVMXLRZPGNMX2G7FXK7}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-21T02:05:02.031705Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4dbc28016aab2eb8e5e66b2fa37cb757ccff2413924a309e06d1b98fb1684dd3

Aliases

arxiv: 2603.26539 · arxiv_version: 2603.26539v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2603.26539 · pith_short_12: JW6CQALKVMXL · pith_short_16: JW6CQALKVMXLRZPG · pith_short_8: JW6CQALK

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/JW6CQALKVMXLRZPGNMX2G7FXK7 \
  | 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: 4dbc28016aab2eb8e5e66b2fa37cb757ccff2413924a309e06d1b98fb1684dd3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c2c806d50c61c2fa6bc1cd7cb72245eed5692bcc7a221e5fce4df619de923d45",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-03-27T15:50:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d2120194f3ce18d2bd1ed06a20fcaa7d7cd4798bd5a37e2abd8931478b4e6682"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2603.26539",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}