Pith Number

pith:SXPCKVMC

pith:2026:SXPCKVMCRKYFPZG3M3QMK6IOYS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Comment on Scientific production in the era of large language models

Antonin Bergeaud, Cl\'ement Bosquet, Thomas Renault

arxiv:2605.17979 v1 · 2026-05-18 · econ.EM

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SXPCKVMCRKYFPZG3M3QMK6IOYS}

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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	2026-05-20T00:05:09.293840Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

95de2555828ab057e4db66e0c5790ec49c493e6b459ed91e9a29c27d9795070b

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.17979 · arxiv_version: 2605.17979v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.17979 · pith_short_12: SXPCKVMCRKYF · pith_short_16: SXPCKVMCRKYFPZG3 · pith_short_8: SXPCKVMC

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/SXPCKVMCRKYFPZG3M3QMK6IOYS \
  | 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: 95de2555828ab057e4db66e0c5790ec49c493e6b459ed91e9a29c27d9795070b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f9ece2ea102b2062617b1e561918099826e96dc1357fef03942fed531a242df7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "econ.EM",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-18T07:35:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1a173a4961f690cc1fc331c7a8be05af184b60ce7f33a58e485b52f676600411"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.17979",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}