Pith Number

pith:X7QCIZFU

pith:2026:X7QCIZFUZE7P2C5VX2CCFMZLBM

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A Causal Markov Condition for Value

Olav Benjamin Vassend

arxiv:2607.16717 v1 · 2026-07-18 · stat.ML · cs.AI · cs.LG

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{X7QCIZFUZE7P2C5VX2CCFMZLBM}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-21T01:20:23.448155Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bfe02464b4c93efd0bb5be8422b32b0b29165ed7474cdd31fb4497f86c58021d

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.16717 · arxiv_version: 2607.16717v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.16717 · pith_short_12: X7QCIZFUZE7P · pith_short_16: X7QCIZFUZE7P2C5V · pith_short_8: X7QCIZFU

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/X7QCIZFUZE7P2C5VX2CCFMZLBM \
  | 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: bfe02464b4c93efd0bb5be8422b32b0b29165ed7474cdd31fb4497f86c58021d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f6922f9308cae3381a97d76b893790316a8b3b139c69836340d89550968b16bb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-18T09:13:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0965fb26ce098e84806e726ba332ab405fe786746b2330eb0a564cde145db75b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.16717",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}