Pith Number

pith:TJIXTSOR

pith:2025:TJIXTSORWPNRQLDGILACCGALOZ

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How Causal Abstraction Underpins Computational Explanation

Atticus Geiger, Jacqueline Harding, Thomas Icard

arxiv:2508.11214 v1 · 2025-08-15 · cs.LG · cs.AI · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TJIXTSORWPNRQLDGILACCGALOZ}

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:54:20.780072Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9a5179c9d1b3db182c6642c021180b76779e399d28dff7068249ef9e3cab41c4

Aliases

arxiv: 2508.11214 · arxiv_version: 2508.11214v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2508.11214 · pith_short_12: TJIXTSORWPNR · pith_short_16: TJIXTSORWPNRQLDG · pith_short_8: TJIXTSOR

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/TJIXTSORWPNRQLDGILACCGALOZ \
  | 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: 9a5179c9d1b3db182c6642c021180b76779e399d28dff7068249ef9e3cab41c4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b00827c8fca3f0c6abd0d16a83b83a875cdd87928451b3ce7edd1c8041e8ad1c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2025-08-15T04:46:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3f209f76109c08e3ac25774583994e52fd94d9cfe21592bbc7c79eccdd68d1b9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2508.11214",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}