Pith Number

pith:VSLIVO4P

pith:2026:VSLIVO4P5DSSIMLREFCWUTSFG7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Probe Direction Is a Property of Its Prompt

Valentin No\"el

arxiv:2608.13329 v1 · 2026-08-13 · cs.LG

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VSLIVO4P5DSSIMLREFCWUTSFG7}

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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	2026-08-14T01:04:13.571405Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ac968abb8fe8e524317121456a4e4537f0f29334d311fab6a08e0131c8b8a2cd

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.13329 · arxiv_version: 2608.13329v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.13329 · pith_short_12: VSLIVO4P5DSS · pith_short_16: VSLIVO4P5DSSIMLR · pith_short_8: VSLIVO4P

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/VSLIVO4P5DSSIMLREFCWUTSFG7 \
  | 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: ac968abb8fe8e524317121456a4e4537f0f29334d311fab6a08e0131c8b8a2cd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f0ffd5149837951e339cc31e8fc864bf61cd0597ee7d581f40986fc1ef4e712b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-13T14:57:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c4a2bdd7ed68e5399bc766ba2a7257126f7ffc1659be0521a95e8bdce96f40fe"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.13329",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}