Pith Number

pith:V3YTKD4A

pith:2025:V3YTKD4AMUECD23EZ5RYYYZSSB

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Explainability for Embedding AI: Aspirations and Actuality

Thomas Weber

arxiv:2504.14631 v1 · 2025-04-20 · cs.HC · cs.SE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{V3YTKD4AMUECD23EZ5RYYYZSSB}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-07-05T10:51:47.898694Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aef1350f80650821eb64cf638c633290572f8bdae805c14a15eb3625e9bee065

Aliases

arxiv: 2504.14631 · arxiv_version: 2504.14631v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2504.14631 · pith_short_12: V3YTKD4AMUEC · pith_short_16: V3YTKD4AMUECD23E · pith_short_8: V3YTKD4A

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/V3YTKD4AMUECD23EZ5RYYYZSSB \
  | 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: aef1350f80650821eb64cf638c633290572f8bdae805c14a15eb3625e9bee065

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c0fb4cbe256866e1c814e78599fe325cef21c216ad870e867a3eafa619de43be",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SE"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.HC",
    "submitted_at": "2025-04-20T14:20:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ae094b9fc542c04b75a65b8afb11ae02932576f40666fb27456306a4d253ef71"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2504.14631",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}