Pith Number

pith:NYSYJ4GH

pith:2026:NYSYJ4GHPYFUEXIGJPTADRDGET

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

From Prediction to Incrementality: Causal Optimization for Large-Scale Targeting and Recommendation

Andre Assuncao Silva T Ribeiro, Benjamin Zelditch, Changshuai Wei, John Bencina, Phuc Nguyen

arxiv:2608.10182 v1 · 2026-08-10 · cs.LG · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NYSYJ4GHPYFUEXIGJPTADRDGET}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-08-12T00:22:59.819176Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6e2584f0c77e0b425d064be601c46624d0877e669f8cc0df76e1ab173254fea0

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.10182 · arxiv_version: 2608.10182v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.10182 · pith_short_12: NYSYJ4GHPYFU · pith_short_16: NYSYJ4GHPYFUEXIG · pith_short_8: NYSYJ4GH

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/NYSYJ4GHPYFUEXIGJPTADRDGET \
  | 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: 6e2584f0c77e0b425d064be601c46624d0877e669f8cc0df76e1ab173254fea0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9c064fbbdc17de17ccf20cc5612e4dd2dd096f82a80172013341a3411ff8a8a1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-10T19:54:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "69f095b7c37f9abcfde4652aded6e408dd94f0ce365af46556f0d661ecb5e605"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.10182",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}