Pith Number

pith:SQSEFHLV

pith:2026:SQSEFHLVMROVFWBTU3DCVNTPZX

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Jialiang Wang, Jose M. Alvarez, Maying Shen, Nadine Chang, Rafid Mahmood

arxiv:2607.20532 v1 · 2026-07-10 · cs.LG · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SQSEFHLVMROVFWBTU3DCVNTPZX}

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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	2026-07-24T00:23:20.717778Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9424429d75645d52d833a6c62ab66fcdf7932dbb56dbe10f2ee37f64af44fd22

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.20532 · arxiv_version: 2607.20532v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.20532 · pith_short_12: SQSEFHLVMROV · pith_short_16: SQSEFHLVMROVFWBT · pith_short_8: SQSEFHLV

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/SQSEFHLVMROVFWBTU3DCVNTPZX \
  | 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: 9424429d75645d52d833a6c62ab66fcdf7932dbb56dbe10f2ee37f64af44fd22

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e6bbc94b18a58d7f4972acfe4d440fea9d1ef5bc2b13cdaeaabab980413d7f25",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-10T13:07:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "db7b285dbeb4476a2d02fd1f628493f2b2c4f89cc5a5af816f40d86906a3ed4e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.20532",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}