Pith Number

pith:TJC6W2DF

pith:2026:TJC6W2DFHGTIZOBOZ5LOSYXVMB

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Expected Free Energy-based Planning as Variational Inference

Bert de Vries, Thijs van de Laar, Wouter W. L. Nuijten

arxiv:2606.20658 v1 · 2026-06-09 · cs.AI · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TJC6W2DFHGTIZOBOZ5LOSYXVMB}

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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	2026-06-23T00:11:52.800711Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9a45eb686539a68cb82ecf56e962f5607c169787dad00bea3c387e11541ad0a0

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.20658 · arxiv_version: 2606.20658v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.20658 · pith_short_12: TJC6W2DFHGTI · pith_short_16: TJC6W2DFHGTIZOBO · pith_short_8: TJC6W2DF

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/TJC6W2DFHGTIZOBOZ5LOSYXVMB \
  | 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: 9a45eb686539a68cb82ecf56e962f5607c169787dad00bea3c387e11541ad0a0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "79c6d026a97a3aaf71ff137482eec1d6bf1267f676cd83c41762f7cb0795125a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-09T08:09:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d9b368ad1aac89b51715102f65208e9f36431bb8cb9df20612c9c7c662d5818d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.20658",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}