Pith Number

pith:S6ECUKFY

pith:2025:S6ECUKFYDHIFKJM3XNTKR7TEP5

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A Theory of Inference Compute Scaling: Reasoning through Directed Stochastic Skill Search

Anuj K. Nayak, Austin R. Ellis-Mohr, Lav R. Varshney

arxiv:2507.00004 v2 · 2025-06-10 · cs.LG · cs.AI · cs.CY · cs.PF

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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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First computed	2026-07-05T11:34:52.764049Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

97882a28b819d055259bbb66a8fe647f42463c76581bc475ea91a299c2b7ce0f

Aliases

arxiv: 2507.00004 · arxiv_version: 2507.00004v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2507.00004 · pith_short_12: S6ECUKFYDHIF · pith_short_16: S6ECUKFYDHIFKJM3 · pith_short_8: S6ECUKFY

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/S6ECUKFYDHIFKJM3XNTKR7TEP5 \
  | 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: 97882a28b819d055259bbb66a8fe647f42463c76581bc475ea91a299c2b7ce0f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "812d239716a5792ff6b92cc1c20d2bd6933fca6465bc5c02600e69092cdddda3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.CY",
      "cs.PF"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2025-06-10T14:47:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b17027c111447da455fd41c0cc99662baa15f882b77519e371ca20d98832f8f3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2507.00004",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}