Pith Number

pith:Y3W2ULBW

pith:2026:Y3W2ULBWBQP5US3BVJO54KWP6O

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Auditing the Audit: Five Failure Modes in Benchmark-Validity Audits

Yanhang Li, Zexin Zhuang, Zhichao Fan

arxiv:2607.02586 v1 · 2026-07-01 · cs.LG · cs.SE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Y3W2ULBWBQP5US3BVJO54KWP6O}

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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	2026-07-07T00:16:01.704674Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c6edaa2c360c1fda4b61aa5dde2acff3a9681bb4ccd71b69c8eb1c15b59dc9cf

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.02586 · arxiv_version: 2607.02586v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.02586 · pith_short_12: Y3W2ULBWBQP5 · pith_short_16: Y3W2ULBWBQP5US3B · pith_short_8: Y3W2ULBW

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/Y3W2ULBWBQP5US3BVJO54KWP6O \
  | 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: c6edaa2c360c1fda4b61aa5dde2acff3a9681bb4ccd71b69c8eb1c15b59dc9cf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8eeef6eebdcc598930995321bc58c44b9cf41aaf0a51b69ca48d4eac5eb032b4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SE"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-01T05:30:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7272eee5b8a7b50fac32b884aadc35b6bff90c8cc92eed85418d92b890e1cebf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.02586",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}