Pith Number

pith:PVFKKTNW

pith:2026:PVFKKTNWBGPUVJPEI3BFJ6HWHZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the missing benchmarks layer and a potential solution

Francis F Daniel, Francis Perelman, Marian Basti, Mauro Iba\~nez

arxiv:2608.02996 v1 · 2026-08-04 · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PVFKKTNWBGPUVJPEI3BFJ6HWHZ}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-08-05T00:44:21.648481Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7d4aa54db6099f4aa5e446c254f8f63e5e5af1e54d6812d7b2854b3dbcfa7f9d

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.02996 · arxiv_version: 2608.02996v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.02996 · pith_short_12: PVFKKTNWBGPU · pith_short_16: PVFKKTNWBGPUVJPE · pith_short_8: PVFKKTNW

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/PVFKKTNWBGPUVJPEI3BFJ6HWHZ \
  | 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: 7d4aa54db6099f4aa5e446c254f8f63e5e5af1e54d6812d7b2854b3dbcfa7f9d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "13ddfa633b2d9f49e94cb0c844ba4967728d490e5da65ef416e2bc64fd5e0df3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-04T01:26:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5bef23ea44458c639d06f8af0d0b17d66f97eb6f1ad89798009028dc7e8ff32f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.02996",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}