Pith Number

pith:VT6SGSFY

pith:2026:VT6SGSFYVAAUVD7VAYBRBOBCNK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Policy-as-logic for robust reasoning over rules

Bastian Lipka, Elizabeth Daly, Rahul Nair

arxiv:2608.11905 v1 · 2026-08-12 · cs.AI · cs.LG · cs.SC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VT6SGSFYVAAUVD7VAYBRBOBCNK}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-08-13T01:28:53.020196Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

acfd2348b8a8014a8ff5060310b8226ab28d9dbe8024047b4fe11df61fcc29ae

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.11905 · arxiv_version: 2608.11905v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.11905 · pith_short_12: VT6SGSFYVAAU · pith_short_16: VT6SGSFYVAAUVD7V · pith_short_8: VT6SGSFY

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/VT6SGSFYVAAUVD7VAYBRBOBCNK \
  | 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: acfd2348b8a8014a8ff5060310b8226ab28d9dbe8024047b4fe11df61fcc29ae

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e5f8bf306e26d866edd0eeb904a928d1861f19d2e2baaad2a50f2e35c25ac335",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "cs.SC"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-12T10:30:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e6ec023f20bbf6dead577dbe993fc5f42a991518b47bd053196b7006d5808ca7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.11905",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}