Pith Number

pith:W45P2JFW

pith:2024:W45P2JFW3OHAX7XYF3HPG7BIF4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Generics are puzzling. Can language models find the missing piece?

Alexandra Birch, Barry Haddow, Emily Allaway, Gustavo Cilleruelo Calder\'on

arxiv:2412.11318 v1 · 2024-12-15 · cs.CL · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{W45P2JFW3OHAX7XYF3HPG7BIF4}

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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	2026-07-05T09:49:30.560527Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b73afd24b6db8e0bfef82ecef37c282f2b3d0a930a172a574b3a5350944d6d17

Aliases

arxiv: 2412.11318 · arxiv_version: 2412.11318v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2412.11318 · pith_short_12: W45P2JFW3OHA · pith_short_16: W45P2JFW3OHAX7XY · pith_short_8: W45P2JFW

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/W45P2JFW3OHAX7XYF3HPG7BIF4 \
  | 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: b73afd24b6db8e0bfef82ecef37c282f2b3d0a930a172a574b3a5350944d6d17

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4386b4dbd27a6fdb9750d7d03007fe2ccf62e9968c1d54f3c64c9e71ac784edd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2024-12-15T21:30:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1b07ca2ca9187ce508442843ba1ff4971cb69c1f0adec08c1e8b406fdf69e070"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2412.11318",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}