Pith Number

pith:RCIDUCBZ

pith:2018:RCIDUCBZY4UJDMDTM7NPYC56RZ

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Comment Generation for Source Code: State of the Art, Challenges and Opportunities

Benwen Zhang, Xiaoran Wang

arxiv:1802.02971 v2 · 2018-01-05 · cs.SE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RCIDUCBZY4UJDMDTM7NPYC56RZ}

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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

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:06:20.559280Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

88903a0839c72891b07367dafc0bbe8e562f2168a7255eb7dc6a492f120eae0d

Aliases

arxiv: 1802.02971 · arxiv_version: 1802.02971v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1802.02971 · pith_short_12: RCIDUCBZY4UJ · pith_short_16: RCIDUCBZY4UJDMDT · pith_short_8: RCIDUCBZ

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/RCIDUCBZY4UJDMDTM7NPYC56RZ \
  | 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: 88903a0839c72891b07367dafc0bbe8e562f2168a7255eb7dc6a492f120eae0d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bb2e3ce7bb6143b740c1c05d2cc808e0f344f3cff80abd30b8fed20bc9374bcb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2018-01-05T02:02:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e104263225bc411bab84f89eb79221fb93d537fbb74370b13683083f0f1c284a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1802.02971",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}