Pith Number

pith:P3J4FWEU

pith:2017:P3J4FWEUAW7CG4KXW7AZJXNBWF

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Counterfactual Explanations without Opening the Black Box: Automated Decisions and the GDPR

Brent Mittelstadt, Chris Russell, Sandra Wachter

arxiv:1711.00399 v3 · 2017-11-01 · cs.AI

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\pithnumber{P3J4FWEUAW7CG4KXW7AZJXNBWF}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:20:30.042275Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7ed3c2d89405be237157b7c194dda1b15cb30bfbf6b49d8bf9a158c8d2e98698

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.00399 · arxiv_version: 1711.00399v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.00399 · pith_short_12: P3J4FWEUAW7C · pith_short_16: P3J4FWEUAW7CG4KX · pith_short_8: P3J4FWEU

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/P3J4FWEUAW7CG4KXW7AZJXNBWF \
  | 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: 7ed3c2d89405be237157b7c194dda1b15cb30bfbf6b49d8bf9a158c8d2e98698

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-01T15:39:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "74415d3c29e6455e3c757964c75f76e7be380267285e5ba3f79e8409997a4991"
  },
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  "source": {
    "id": "1711.00399",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}