Pith Number

pith:NFLIUKE3

pith:2025:NFLIUKE3P7E3HMWKF3RZU5JCB7

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A Mathematical Philosophy of Explanations in Mechanistic Interpretability -- The Strange Science Part I.i

Kola Ayonrinde, Louis Jaburi

arxiv:2505.00808 v1 · 2025-05-01 · cs.LG · cs.AI · cs.CL

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First computed	2026-07-05T10:57:39.452803Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

69568a289b7fc9b3b2ca2ee39a75220fd021726221b52b91f5ba3e006958b462

Aliases

arxiv: 2505.00808 · arxiv_version: 2505.00808v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.00808 · pith_short_12: NFLIUKE3P7E3 · pith_short_16: NFLIUKE3P7E3HMWK · pith_short_8: NFLIUKE3

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NFLIUKE3P7E3HMWKF3RZU5JCB7 \
  | 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: 69568a289b7fc9b3b2ca2ee39a75220fd021726221b52b91f5ba3e006958b462

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2025-05-01T19:08:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b5ba753a8faa31e9f1250bdfaa22312e03ace30feb881ea8d5ed621d1e9f6d4e"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}