Pith Number

pith:TANRDYDQ

pith:2025:TANRDYDQICJGTGLEW7PRJ74XMK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Can Gradient Descent Simulate Prompting?

Eric Zhang, Jacob Andreas, Leshem Choshen

arxiv:2506.20989 v1 · 2025-06-26 · cs.CL · cs.LG

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\pithnumber{TANRDYDQICJGTGLEW7PRJ74XMK}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T11:27:37.223209Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

981b11e0704092699964b7df14ff97629831afc8dbefa8be4eadc682c98c4edc

Aliases

arxiv: 2506.20989 · arxiv_version: 2506.20989v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.20989 · pith_short_12: TANRDYDQICJG · pith_short_16: TANRDYDQICJGTGLE · pith_short_8: TANRDYDQ

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/TANRDYDQICJGTGLEW7PRJ74XMK \
  | 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: 981b11e0704092699964b7df14ff97629831afc8dbefa8be4eadc682c98c4edc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7d63171852e78fa9a2e1a6f95d5102751a2fbad7b015fc6319728d5931fb88ef",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2025-06-26T04:06:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4fd95534c21afa9661e1ca21d86f7c97acabb7b0c1db90c3a01cc5de818f9579"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2506.20989",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}