Pith Number

pith:PV6ERVSM

pith:2024:PV6ERVSMHBKP25BDIFCPW4FPL4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Causal World Model Underlying Next Token Prediction: Exploring GPT in a Controlled Environment

Estelle Aflalo, Raanan Y. Rohekar, Sungduk Yu, Vasudev Lal, Yaniv Gurwicz

arxiv:2412.07446 v4 · 2024-12-10 · cs.AI · cs.CL · cs.LG · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PV6ERVSMHBKP25BDIFCPW4FPL4}

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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	2026-07-05T11:32:21.659422Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7d7c48d64c3854fd74234144fb70af5f17b8d287594242bf64fb8b5ddac968d8

Aliases

arxiv: 2412.07446 · arxiv_version: 2412.07446v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2412.07446 · pith_short_12: PV6ERVSMHBKP · pith_short_16: PV6ERVSMHBKP25BD · pith_short_8: PV6ERVSM

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/PV6ERVSMHBKP25BDIFCPW4FPL4 \
  | 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: 7d7c48d64c3854fd74234144fb70af5f17b8d287594242bf64fb8b5ddac968d8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "564098f430b9328a5b846abc456f5e5fac56aacf45f4d81d22b56e7faa6e0edc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL",
      "cs.LG",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2024-12-10T12:05:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d60b09e5ade8a0e2fc40adf67a1d4ea33cf4cfa7aeb72a7bbb2cd5da4a03d3b6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2412.07446",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}