Pith Number

pith:NYSXXYWM

pith:2025:NYSXXYWME5HYW2LH4VKWTIXBBB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Position: Intelligent Coding Systems Should Write Programs with Justifications

Chengpeng Wang, Shiwei Feng, Xiangyu Zhang, Xiangzhe Xu, Zian Su

arxiv:2508.06017 v1 · 2025-08-08 · cs.SE · cs.CL · cs.LG

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NYSXXYWME5HYW2LH4VKWTIXBBB}

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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	2026-07-05T11:50:47.478711Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6e257be2cc274f8b6967e55569a2e108463e1826fc9db0108160f2c19d58fe4c

Aliases

arxiv: 2508.06017 · arxiv_version: 2508.06017v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2508.06017 · pith_short_12: NYSXXYWME5HY · pith_short_16: NYSXXYWME5HYW2LH · pith_short_8: NYSXXYWM

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/NYSXXYWME5HYW2LH4VKWTIXBBB \
  | 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: 6e257be2cc274f8b6967e55569a2e108463e1826fc9db0108160f2c19d58fe4c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a64d370bebcf2e22690826246294c5f5bba67b3fd629052cc0337b0fdddb1162",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2025-08-08T05:04:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "428ed9f62c120b620f94052c04e58b41d6f11061755acfe1d36281021899fc75"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2508.06017",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}