Pith Number

pith:QIDVXUML

pith:2025:QIDVXUMLICPWGI3XNBL7MJ3NUH

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Model Science: getting serious about verification, explanation and control of AI systems

Przemyslaw Biecek, Wojciech Samek

arxiv:2508.20040 v1 · 2025-08-27 · cs.AI · cs.LG

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QIDVXUMLICPWGI3XNBL7MJ3NUH}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-07-05T12:00:22.779391Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

82075bd18b409f6323776857f6276da1c8a0a9d083816c49c5a544217abe2106

Aliases

arxiv: 2508.20040 · arxiv_version: 2508.20040v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2508.20040 · pith_short_12: QIDVXUMLICPW · pith_short_16: QIDVXUMLICPWGI3X · pith_short_8: QIDVXUML

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/QIDVXUMLICPWGI3XNBL7MJ3NUH \
  | 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: 82075bd18b409f6323776857f6276da1c8a0a9d083816c49c5a544217abe2106

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7816f28d2c03133ae669ca0e6778d52a4d7f0ef88e0063a9cbaff503d8f0c020",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2025-08-27T16:50:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f8d05b08e0b5a7de1569e168e405328880590d56db604c07464309d015c49de3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2508.20040",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}