Pith Number

pith:L6MVHBQR

pith:2026:L6MVHBQR3WRYLSJDH7XYICEUPN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Explanations as Dialogues: Toward Human-Centered Conversational Explainable AI

Niharika Mathur, Smit Desai

arxiv:2605.27666 v1 · 2026-05-26 · cs.HC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{L6MVHBQR3WRYLSJDH7XYICEUPN}

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-28T01:04:45.714991Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5f99538611dda385c9233fef8408947b4adc357c06f5c6e4a60c993944aa55c5

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.27666 · arxiv_version: 2605.27666v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.27666 · pith_short_12: L6MVHBQR3WRY · pith_short_16: L6MVHBQR3WRYLSJD · pith_short_8: L6MVHBQR

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/L6MVHBQR3WRYLSJDH7XYICEUPN \
  | 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: 5f99538611dda385c9233fef8408947b4adc357c06f5c6e4a60c993944aa55c5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "aad4f1d3cb7a877ddb661094ecf516aed18e59163ebb58e60828044a096eaa09",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.HC",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-26T20:33:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "830d6a38d2b1e6fdd31c46da0921577f06c1f21dc513e24f271f6ad8f648a656"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.27666",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}