Pith Number

pith:Z2D4JRPQ

pith:2026:Z2D4JRPQNQ4QNE3R6D4MUEMNPI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Position: Explainability Research Must Prioritize Foundations over Ad-hoc Methods

Cynthia Rudin, Cyrus Rashtchian, Himabindu Lakkaraju, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Lesia Semenova, Michal Moshkovitz, Nave Frost, Shichang Zhang, Suraj Srinivas, Valentyn Boreiko

arxiv:2607.14123 v1 · 2026-06-18 · cs.LG · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Z2D4JRPQNQ4QNE3R6D4MUEMNPI}

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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	2026-07-17T00:20:53.097053Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ce87c4c5f06c39069371f0f8ca118d7a3180a2db1ae04252906d88be0fbcfc6f

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.14123 · arxiv_version: 2607.14123v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.14123 · pith_short_12: Z2D4JRPQNQ4Q · pith_short_16: Z2D4JRPQNQ4QNE3R · pith_short_8: Z2D4JRPQ

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/Z2D4JRPQNQ4QNE3R6D4MUEMNPI \
  | 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: ce87c4c5f06c39069371f0f8ca118d7a3180a2db1ae04252906d88be0fbcfc6f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ee3aa20e6d037e7d3e6b04d47127e0407e4890a055d354a9a2e607567c5d2563",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-18T21:46:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cd85e2b47daa3d66be5c00e1eca7db56f256baad32e5f08512efb791c95e3bb1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.14123",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}