Pith Number

pith:WFIQ3VFC

pith:2025:WFIQ3VFCIALGN46EKGJDDPUBDF

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On the Complexity-Faithfulness Trade-off of Gradient-Based Explanations

Amir Mehrpanah, Hossein Azizpour, Kevin Smith, Matteo Gamba

arxiv:2508.10490 v1 · 2025-08-14 · cs.LG · cs.AI · cs.CV

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WFIQ3VFCIALGN46EKGJDDPUBDF}

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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.

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:53:57.459927Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b1510dd4a2401666f3c4519231be8119700711df56d6bbf1129c4ec9ad235d6a

Aliases

arxiv: 2508.10490 · arxiv_version: 2508.10490v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2508.10490 · pith_short_12: WFIQ3VFCIALG · pith_short_16: WFIQ3VFCIALGN46E · pith_short_8: WFIQ3VFC

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/WFIQ3VFCIALGN46EKGJDDPUBDF \
  | 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: b1510dd4a2401666f3c4519231be8119700711df56d6bbf1129c4ec9ad235d6a

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "05ef0b6c12d36132842069bfa0c761517222eb220344a388c4cad06d112390b3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.CV"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2025-08-14T09:49:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e6f7d6b000503af82d532e209871ec0baa5c7973bc76743f3d5f3b9a4820cae5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2508.10490",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}