Pith Number

pith:MOHPVFNL

pith:2025:MOHPVFNL57CFQVCP6XYEZWSSEX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Leo Breiman, the Rashomon Effect, and the Occam Dilemma

Cynthia Rudin

arxiv:2507.03884 v1 · 2025-07-05 · stat.ML · cs.LG

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MOHPVFNL57CFQVCP6XYEZWSSEX}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-05T11:32:36.669208Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

638efa95abefc458544ff5f04cda5225f346c2b2d61b541e34272e8706fb37a4

Aliases

arxiv: 2507.03884 · arxiv_version: 2507.03884v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2507.03884 · pith_short_12: MOHPVFNL57CF · pith_short_16: MOHPVFNL57CFQVCP · pith_short_8: MOHPVFNL

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/MOHPVFNL57CFQVCP6XYEZWSSEX \
  | 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: 638efa95abefc458544ff5f04cda5225f346c2b2d61b541e34272e8706fb37a4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dd3d16da3297b09969a0ef30c80c440183f011e4cc147b6d286221475949d01a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2025-07-05T03:54:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9fe30ea0a22b0e8990e65944662f91f654a81710306fc7df4df0ccf1cc3b9b53"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2507.03884",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}