Pith Number

pith:YH3L5VAT

pith:2026:YH3L5VATAKAK4F4B3WCKMVFSNK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Theory-Guided LLM Pedagogical Agent for STEM+C Scaffolding Without Over-Reliance

Angela Eeds, Ashwin T S, Clayton Cohn, Gautam Biswas, Hanchen David Wang, Meiyi Ma, Menton Deweese, Naveeduddin Mohammed, Pamela J. Osborn Popp, Rebekah Stanton, Ryan Li, Shakeera Walker, Shruti Jain, Siyuan Guo, Surya Rayala, Umesh Timalsina

arxiv:2605.30539 v1 · 2026-05-28 · cs.MA

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YH3L5VATAKAK4F4B3WCKMVFSNK}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-06-01T01:02:59.882826Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c1f6bed4130280ae1781dd84a654b26a85c1e661bdb0104ecd4ad655396f1781

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.30539 · arxiv_version: 2605.30539v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.30539 · pith_short_12: YH3L5VATAKAK · pith_short_16: YH3L5VATAKAK4F4B · pith_short_8: YH3L5VAT

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/YH3L5VATAKAK4F4B3WCKMVFSNK \
  | 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: c1f6bed4130280ae1781dd84a654b26a85c1e661bdb0104ecd4ad655396f1781

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "761b17e5e474e4667b5e6e744c6ea36690640590fcd8564c57603547344c79dc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.MA",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-28T20:13:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1f76c936edcf4601e1b6f35e3bdd95e55f1af0a667b5b911b18e588261f5acbd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.30539",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}