Pith Number

pith:LGJ62B5D

pith:2026:LGJ62B5DMHYHOZNETSWLETOGKY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

From Observation to Insight: Mechanistic World Models and the Quest for Autonomous Discovery

Anson Lei, Bernhard Sch\"olkopf, Ingmar Posner

arxiv:2607.12474 v1 · 2026-07-14 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LGJ62B5DMHYHOZNETSWLETOGKY}

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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	2026-07-15T01:21:36.951726Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5993ed07a361f07765a49cacb24dc656388afe642c60f02dae03a8f2840d5da5

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.12474 · arxiv_version: 2607.12474v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.12474 · pith_short_12: LGJ62B5DMHYH · pith_short_16: LGJ62B5DMHYHOZNE · pith_short_8: LGJ62B5D

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/LGJ62B5DMHYHOZNETSWLETOGKY \
  | 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: 5993ed07a361f07765a49cacb24dc656388afe642c60f02dae03a8f2840d5da5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2290e2879eda9eb694fd78c1cf912614b5e7e3856a4dd7fbd668e52cc93aaf18",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-14T08:03:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1b69cd65970963ed1975a95ffe740bd136bae9f23aa1b56befe3ed46c433b537"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.12474",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}