Pith Number

pith:X6SQFGCI

pith:2026:X6SQFGCIGV7XDKEOGUZ3BRO3AT

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The Illusion of Improvement: Reject Inference Strategies in Credit Scoring

Bruno Scarone, Ricardo Baeza-Yates

arxiv:2606.18479 v1 · 2026-06-16 · cs.LG · cs.CY

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{X6SQFGCIGV7XDKEOGUZ3BRO3AT}

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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	2026-06-19T16:11:02.153187Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bfa5029848357f71a88e3533b0c5db04e7f4a492c59de859b9af439117c6acdb

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.18479 · arxiv_version: 2606.18479v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.18479 · pith_short_12: X6SQFGCIGV7X · pith_short_16: X6SQFGCIGV7XDKEO · pith_short_8: X6SQFGCI

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/X6SQFGCIGV7XDKEOGUZ3BRO3AT \
  | 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: bfa5029848357f71a88e3533b0c5db04e7f4a492c59de859b9af439117c6acdb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2e6474011f2255fe2329939091b32b057d63c9c64c028901e6d4148869eb1324",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-16T20:43:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "16e1e9e2a1734024da693ee0ef0c594a62df02e79eb67d89fb6969994c96bf28"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.18479",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}