Pith Number

pith:LF46VU52

pith:2026:LF46VU52BTKHSW3MHJWVV6ROPC

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The Price of Meaning: Quantifying Semantic Communication Overheads in Practice

Adnan Aijaz, Peizheng Li, Xinyi Lin

arxiv:2607.26764 v1 · 2026-07-29 · cs.NI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LF46VU52BTKHSW3MHJWVV6ROPC}

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✓ 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	2026-07-30T01:22:13.622657Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	unsigned_v0
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5979ead3ba0cd4795b6c3a6d5afa2e789d0a6109b258d66ba0d2787197f86935

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.26764 · arxiv_version: 2607.26764v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.26764 · pith_short_12: LF46VU52BTKH · pith_short_16: LF46VU52BTKHSW3M · pith_short_8: LF46VU52

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/LF46VU52BTKHSW3MHJWVV6ROPC \
  | 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: 5979ead3ba0cd4795b6c3a6d5afa2e789d0a6109b258d66ba0d2787197f86935

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "388c4d00cf29ff4bccca2fe09bdfe6fa0df7755d44f77e8346cac0015a83361a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-29T11:04:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9b09ffc0324089b6b783afb83f519979a39420029c6d53904cfff6c598893cb6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.26764",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}