Pith Number

pith:OH34FAWF

pith:2026:OH34FAWF5N2QKM6QYDRGGW4OA5

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Mechanist: AI as a Scientific Instrument for Discovering the Mechanisms of Intelligence

Buqiang Xu, Fei Shen, Haoming Xu, Haoxiong Wang, Haozhe Luo, Huajun Chen, Julian McAuley, Junfeng Fang, Linyi Yang, Mengru Wang, Ningyu Zhang, Shumin Deng, Shuofei Qiao, Tat Seng Chua, Xin Xu, Yunxiang Wei, Yunzhi Yao, Zhenqian Xu, Zhixiang Cui

arxiv:2608.12036 v1 · 2026-08-12 · cs.AI · cs.CL · cs.HC · cs.LG · cs.MA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OH34FAWF5N2QKM6QYDRGGW4OA5}

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4 Citations 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.

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First computed	2026-08-13T01:29:19.150448Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

71f7c282c5eb750533d0c0e2635b8e0776b093e6032ced65239f4de258cfa8e6

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.12036 · arxiv_version: 2608.12036v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.12036 · pith_short_12: OH34FAWF5N2Q · pith_short_16: OH34FAWF5N2QKM6Q · pith_short_8: OH34FAWF

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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/OH34FAWF5N2QKM6QYDRGGW4OA5 \
  | 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: 71f7c282c5eb750533d0c0e2635b8e0776b093e6032ced65239f4de258cfa8e6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "110667c270cf32f44aa2beb64a586c1657e90c85f185010433fb37b19fd348bb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL",
      "cs.HC",
      "cs.LG",
      "cs.MA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-12T13:19:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4f71eb34b36a7a4f893adf19700d1dc334e99a61d024f901e2d9de6a6186f0b0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.12036",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}