Pith Number

pith:QKSQMHCM

pith:2023:QKSQMHCMS7NGNN5AUF2DUSMIID

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Using an LLM to Help With Code Understanding

Andrew Macvean, Bogdan Vasilescu, Brad Myers, Daye Nam, Vincent Hellendoorn

arxiv:2307.08177 v3 · 2023-07-17 · cs.SE · cs.AI · cs.HC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QKSQMHCMS7NGNN5AUF2DUSMIID}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T07:34:15.706874Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

82a5061c4c97da66b7a0a1743a498840ca703b12ab7ce597f37346e229642be0

Aliases

arxiv: 2307.08177 · arxiv_version: 2307.08177v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2307.08177 · pith_short_12: QKSQMHCMS7NG · pith_short_16: QKSQMHCMS7NGNN5A · pith_short_8: QKSQMHCM

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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/QKSQMHCMS7NGNN5AUF2DUSMIID \
  | 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: 82a5061c4c97da66b7a0a1743a498840ca703b12ab7ce597f37346e229642be0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "17805dab7f30d9ce82ce3a9bd4c47f30e68397b08f969e96d4c82ffc8b9f3b18",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.HC"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2023-07-17T00:49:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cdecae8d1fd8715f539d0c7933ede7c1c010b5586b45c00fdb567997241b2690"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2307.08177",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}