Pith Number

pith:KMCXQMIG

pith:2026:KMCXQMIGZ2S7YB5FOJVJJDJPTA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Do Judges Behave Like Algorithms?

Brandon Garrett, Chloe Zhu, Cynthia Rudin, Eric Chen, Riya Manchanda, Songman Kang

arxiv:2608.10400 v1 · 2026-08-11 · cs.LG

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KMCXQMIGZ2S7YB5FOJVJJDJPTA}

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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	2026-08-12T01:22:23.251285Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5305783106cea5fc07a5726a948d2f981ee90e395a4f5634e8b66b9e3a66ee81

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.10400 · arxiv_version: 2608.10400v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.10400 · pith_short_12: KMCXQMIGZ2S7 · pith_short_16: KMCXQMIGZ2S7YB5F · pith_short_8: KMCXQMIG

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/KMCXQMIGZ2S7YB5FOJVJJDJPTA \
  | 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: 5305783106cea5fc07a5726a948d2f981ee90e395a4f5634e8b66b9e3a66ee81

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "88173c008472574c4d39b0d943ecc6176c855186b176a6d0f4a7d07d9dbde43f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-11T02:46:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e1563456b326ec26143806f3e7b7b23e9eef3e289f0185cf19743581ca131c97"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.10400",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}