Pith Number

pith:WJYWGVC4

pith:2026:WJYWGVC4HBECLBNBNNPFRYCJ6C

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Framework of Thoughts: A Foundation Framework for Dynamic and Optimized Reasoning based on Chains, Trees, and Graphs

Felix Fricke, Georg Groh, Simon Malberg

arxiv:2602.16512 v2 · 2026-02-18 · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WJYWGVC4HBECLBNBNNPFRYCJ6C}

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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	2026-07-07T02:17:19.011563Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b27163545c38482585a16b5e58e049f0bfd37234cf8dcdcb03193a3934308aa7

Aliases

arxiv: 2602.16512 · arxiv_version: 2602.16512v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2602.16512 · pith_short_12: WJYWGVC4HBEC · pith_short_16: WJYWGVC4HBECLBNB · pith_short_8: WJYWGVC4

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/WJYWGVC4HBECLBNBNNPFRYCJ6C \
  | 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: b27163545c38482585a16b5e58e049f0bfd37234cf8dcdcb03193a3934308aa7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "92e2225678df42ff6c8edc75cefcef4c0e45314f96f67ee829fb753aaee73772",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-02-18T14:58:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d6a2db7553023d23acc7bf8e559d91bd0ff966bc440958afa18682034d54e480"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2602.16512",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}