Pith Number

pith:VTRNAREC

pith:2025:VTRNARECHOWTBQQNB77A6OAJQF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Generation and Evaluation in the Human Invention Process through the Lens of Game Design

Adrian Weller, Cedegao E. Zhang, Graham Todd, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Julian Togelius, Junyi Chu, Katherine M. Collins, Lionel Wong, Thomas L. Griffiths

arxiv:2508.10914 v1 · 2025-08-01 · cs.HC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VTRNARECHOWTBQQNB77A6OAJQF}

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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	2026-07-05T11:54:14.651256Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ace2d044823bad30c20d0ffe0f3809815e6b3b32623fa1ac44aef07908903248

Aliases

arxiv: 2508.10914 · arxiv_version: 2508.10914v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2508.10914 · pith_short_12: VTRNARECHOWT · pith_short_16: VTRNARECHOWTBQQN · pith_short_8: VTRNAREC

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/VTRNARECHOWTBQQNB77A6OAJQF \
  | 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: ace2d044823bad30c20d0ffe0f3809815e6b3b32623fa1ac44aef07908903248

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "51b4446a61d48a1c9507d32661d525d61a29f1ece78f80ae24888e26850e89d0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.HC",
    "submitted_at": "2025-08-01T03:46:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "37ec93c4fbdf70bd5cded6058032ce70470a6449d4a965cca180176e62c46c33"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2508.10914",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}