Pith Number

pith:WIOUJTLD

pith:2026:WIOUJTLDDZB5ULYPU43T2YUIAP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Mask-Based Priors Are More Persistent than Query-Key Initializations

Cameron Gordon, Hemanth Saratchandran, Mingze Ma, Simon Lucey

arxiv:2608.00418 v1 · 2026-08-01 · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WIOUJTLDDZB5ULYPU43T2YUIAP}

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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	2026-08-04T00:35:40.670291Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b21d44cd631e43da2f0fa7373d628803f9585499fee17c720587f82d1ab8f22f

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.00418 · arxiv_version: 2608.00418v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.00418 · pith_short_12: WIOUJTLDDZB5 · pith_short_16: WIOUJTLDDZB5ULYP · pith_short_8: WIOUJTLD

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/WIOUJTLDDZB5ULYPU43T2YUIAP \
  | 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: b21d44cd631e43da2f0fa7373d628803f9585499fee17c720587f82d1ab8f22f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6dc4f91307d7c64dd890b467a0c2a8158d79c7b98b4683358cc6a65be50625eb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-01T03:39:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "31c8d06f0dbf181ae67223dd61efc65acd0cfbf09040f3218b6fe8438310192a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.00418",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}