Pith Number

pith:YOUJTJ3O

pith:2025:YOUJTJ3OZSW2IIZADEH4GL7J2M

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Co-constructing Explanations for AI Systems using Provenance

Fina Polat, Jan-Christoph Kalo, Paul Groth, Shubha Guha

arxiv:2507.17761 v1 · 2025-05-31 · cs.HC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YOUJTJ3OZSW2IIZADEH4GL7J2M}

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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	2026-07-05T11:42:34.552542Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c3a899a76eccada42320190fc32fe9d32b2ba6664c5e64be8fdf4f6d901073e2

Aliases

arxiv: 2507.17761 · arxiv_version: 2507.17761v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2507.17761 · pith_short_12: YOUJTJ3OZSW2 · pith_short_16: YOUJTJ3OZSW2IIZA · pith_short_8: YOUJTJ3O

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/YOUJTJ3OZSW2IIZADEH4GL7J2M \
  | 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: c3a899a76eccada42320190fc32fe9d32b2ba6664c5e64be8fdf4f6d901073e2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fb9d00627a5ab826e2ad8b7daaa74b02b652892b642166db2002fb69fdb56634",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.HC",
    "submitted_at": "2025-05-31T20:52:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e410dcd12f0161922549aadcdd0c82ea369c59a1fa04b93d3810f7e521d18008"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2507.17761",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}