Pith Number

pith:X6YQHLKF

pith:2026:X6YQHLKFIJD74BHKRILZXBORQS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Nothing from Something: Can a Language Model Discover 0?

Brenden M. Lake, Phoebe Zeng, Thomas L. Griffiths

arxiv:2606.17289 v1 · 2026-06-15 · cs.AI · cs.CL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{X6YQHLKFIJD74BHKRILZXBORQS}

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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	2026-06-19T16:10:08.234521Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bfb103ad454247fe04ea8a179b85d18481052595a8bab01b8ac454a10dfb553b

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.17289 · arxiv_version: 2606.17289v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.17289 · pith_short_12: X6YQHLKFIJD7 · pith_short_16: X6YQHLKFIJD74BHK · pith_short_8: X6YQHLKF

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/X6YQHLKFIJD74BHKRILZXBORQS \
  | 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: bfb103ad454247fe04ea8a179b85d18481052595a8bab01b8ac454a10dfb553b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "69a7503d04c72998192e145882a257b07ace03ff03716e02902379c323e29263",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-15T20:54:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2ed615aecada7bdec711285a813c5106515e9cb6b93bb0aad4efc93c32fa1284"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.17289",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}