Pith Number

pith:YMAAKVYJ

pith:2026:YMAAKVYJCIKVDXCSL7RS4Y6YKZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Fourth Quadrant: A Stylized View of Benign Misfitting

Anant Sahai, Gireeja Ranade

arxiv:2608.01032 v1 · 2026-08-02 · cs.LG · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YMAAKVYJCIKVDXCSL7RS4Y6YKZ}

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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	2026-08-04T01:56:15.277299Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c300055709121551dc525fe32e63d856432e02d233029472ab544696fff54747

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.01032 · arxiv_version: 2608.01032v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.01032 · pith_short_12: YMAAKVYJCIKV · pith_short_16: YMAAKVYJCIKVDXCS · pith_short_8: YMAAKVYJ

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/YMAAKVYJCIKVDXCSL7RS4Y6YKZ \
  | 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: c300055709121551dc525fe32e63d856432e02d233029472ab544696fff54747

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cfc2da572de6f5729ca88a3aec0a8eede4b7dba6dcb345901d4ecbb77ffb8488",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-02T06:27:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "11046688f0de064eac1f33148da4df69edff94a76a4e3098d3795b0e8ac997f6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.01032",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}