Pith Number

pith:LHQHAQOS

pith:2025:LHQHAQOSNFOIWOTV4KKMFP4CNK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Asking LLMs to Verify First is Almost Free Lunch

Quanming Yao, Shiguang Wu

arxiv:2511.21734 v2 · 2025-11-21 · cs.CL · cs.AI

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LHQHAQOSNFOIWOTV4KKMFP4CNK}

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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	2026-05-26T01:03:18.995498Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

59e07041d2695c8b3a75e294c2bf826abd0dbf1e1d5285ea88cd6a6eb037f35d

Aliases

arxiv: 2511.21734 · arxiv_version: 2511.21734v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2511.21734 · pith_short_12: LHQHAQOSNFOI · pith_short_16: LHQHAQOSNFOIWOTV · pith_short_8: LHQHAQOS

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/LHQHAQOSNFOIWOTV4KKMFP4CNK \
  | 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: 59e07041d2695c8b3a75e294c2bf826abd0dbf1e1d5285ea88cd6a6eb037f35d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7323958640acdae7637593909789f267b394c947062384e9d4aebbcc064cc1ed",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2025-11-21T09:55:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "09159da0fa1924348e069f4664ab6959fd6630725f6b99187a0906707d0fa676"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2511.21734",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}