Pith Number

pith:OBK5FOSD

pith:2026:OBK5FOSDRZDBQ7JLSJJYQNOGFJ

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Are We Truly Innovating? A Qualitative and Quantitative Study of Originality in AI Research Papers

Abeer Mostafa, Thi Huyen Nguyen, Zahra Ahmadi

arxiv:2602.06054 v3 · 2026-01-14 · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OBK5FOSDRZDBQ7JLSJJYQNOGFJ}

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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	2026-05-28T02:04:46.046357Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7055d2ba438e46187d2b92538835c62a6841b30e8c8157e9c45f1e2d6f0f5436

Aliases

arxiv: 2602.06054 · arxiv_version: 2602.06054v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2602.06054 · pith_short_12: OBK5FOSDRZDB · pith_short_16: OBK5FOSDRZDBQ7JL · pith_short_8: OBK5FOSD

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/OBK5FOSDRZDBQ7JLSJJYQNOGFJ \
  | 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: 7055d2ba438e46187d2b92538835c62a6841b30e8c8157e9c45f1e2d6f0f5436

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2879b17724163de6e9bf3142912a3cb6015e073137be6e8007a5a8bcb0da064d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-01-14T16:49:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0db6db5e39e0200e4202d46b53684d2d16dd0a22b20b8c9aa73af3a2249d630e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2602.06054",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}