Pith Number

pith:VYPOSO4A

pith:2026:VYPOSO4AFBRRIL6VTKER2B5RTC

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Characterize Then Distill: Mechanistic Reasoning in Large Output Spaces

Byron C. Wallace, Debjyoti Saha Roy, Javed A. Aslam

arxiv:2606.06840 v1 · 2026-06-05 · cs.CL · cs.AI · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VYPOSO4AFBRRIL6VTKER2B5RTC}

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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	2026-06-08T01:04:31.181481Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ae1ee93b802863142fd59a891d07b19884a3c6061a46c12ea4423142ac74cb78

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.06840 · arxiv_version: 2606.06840v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.06840 · pith_short_12: VYPOSO4AFBRR · pith_short_16: VYPOSO4AFBRRIL6V · pith_short_8: VYPOSO4A

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/VYPOSO4AFBRRIL6VTKER2B5RTC \
  | 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: ae1ee93b802863142fd59a891d07b19884a3c6061a46c12ea4423142ac74cb78

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bac56f812badb411b9e392d2e1d939b3497e406e9abf714a95882294885c2bac",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-05T02:32:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4272684d4ea0f73fbdcef9e4fa75efe6fa2a80858ba3cea5b516f69d95bf5dff"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.06840",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}