Pith Number

pith:RUAXZZNX

pith:2026:RUAXZZNXMCEA7X2SGPWYWJGU4Z

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Reasoning Beyond Prediction: From Data-Driven to Causal Software Engineering

Luca Giamattei, Roberto Pietrantuono, Stefano Russo

arxiv:2606.27960 v1 · 2026-06-26 · cs.SE · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RUAXZZNXMCEA7X2SGPWYWJGU4Z}

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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	2026-06-29T01:14:53.825909Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8d017ce5b760880fdf5233ed8b24d4e6486a5673d4edea777bbf0a9e0a17cc76

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.27960 · arxiv_version: 2606.27960v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.27960 · pith_short_12: RUAXZZNXMCEA · pith_short_16: RUAXZZNXMCEA7X2S · pith_short_8: RUAXZZNX

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/RUAXZZNXMCEA7X2SGPWYWJGU4Z \
  | 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: 8d017ce5b760880fdf5233ed8b24d4e6486a5673d4edea777bbf0a9e0a17cc76

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1e15f5292f0df8a6b5c29b736c87bb12dfd8c6fe051a16653693248a81272385",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-26T11:03:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8e6f7bd63329e736f6799293fdf13c2a0ebfb43ab7c03bd32a8499f84832a148"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.27960",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}