Pith Number

pith:LCAPWQQD

pith:2026:LCAPWQQDXUASNMWIQBQJP5QVXH

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Protoreasoning in Tiny Transformers

Eduardo Valle, Fergal Reid

arxiv:2608.04980 v1 · 2026-08-05 · cs.CL · cs.AI · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LCAPWQQDXUASNMWIQBQJP5QVXH}

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4 Citations open

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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	2026-08-06T01:47:59.350882Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5880fb4203bd0126b2c8806097f615b9d700c5d2f926abaf993c33de3f0c4998

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.04980 · arxiv_version: 2608.04980v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.04980 · pith_short_12: LCAPWQQDXUAS · pith_short_16: LCAPWQQDXUASNMWI · pith_short_8: LCAPWQQD

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/LCAPWQQDXUASNMWIQBQJP5QVXH \
  | 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: 5880fb4203bd0126b2c8806097f615b9d700c5d2f926abaf993c33de3f0c4998

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "200baebd3c73f55ea7c7913d12de5706c7420ff631e2388c1882a0eb8a69eaad",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-05T15:51:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c1523267163ab56d7c12ad9c8a27bbcf5a2e8e64e2f3a2d2377c867e8201bc57"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.04980",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}