Pith Number

pith:SKCDMMK6

pith:2026:SKCDMMK6HCZJIQOF5UKD45RJPL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Position: Explanation Stability Is a Property of the Model Method Pair, Not the Model

Daniel Ting, Kabilan Elangovan

arxiv:2607.16652 v1 · 2026-07-18 · cs.CV · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SKCDMMK6HCZJIQOF5UKD45RJPL}

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-07-21T01:20:20.395169Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

928436315e38b29441c5ed143e76297aeb7d4a800f50e4bbbde0ddf3ed239cf9

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.16652 · arxiv_version: 2607.16652v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.16652 · pith_short_12: SKCDMMK6HCZJ · pith_short_16: SKCDMMK6HCZJIQOF · pith_short_8: SKCDMMK6

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/SKCDMMK6HCZJIQOF5UKD45RJPL \
  | 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: 928436315e38b29441c5ed143e76297aeb7d4a800f50e4bbbde0ddf3ed239cf9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d7d96d5e9404ec3f1c1de67f3ade012e2edf10dc6dcc58be859e0fa68d2e81e4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CV",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-18T06:09:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ae3faeee4ddd6bd2368399302b849134277c12289afe793d272204974b51a8a1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.16652",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}