Pith Number

pith:Z5RUTGDN

pith:2026:Z5RUTGDNH6YKHPAFV3X2RSYW4W

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Variational Diffusion Channel Decoder

Chengwei Zhang, Siyu Liao, Yifan Du

arxiv:2605.18902 v1 · 2026-05-17 · cs.IT · cs.LG · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Z5RUTGDNH6YKHPAFV3X2RSYW4W}

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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	2026-05-20T00:06:31.248671Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cf6349986d3fb0a3bc05aeefa8cb16e5b8e6b7fd9c1a4e2d5d6f8728e7423edb

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.18902 · arxiv_version: 2605.18902v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.18902 · pith_short_12: Z5RUTGDNH6YK · pith_short_16: Z5RUTGDNH6YKHPAF · pith_short_8: Z5RUTGDN

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/Z5RUTGDNH6YKHPAFV3X2RSYW4W \
  | 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: cf6349986d3fb0a3bc05aeefa8cb16e5b8e6b7fd9c1a4e2d5d6f8728e7423edb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4e83c7e0812374ff43304c9ddef82abb7ad2c62b383a92cb5a5cb6507c4f414e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-17T13:10:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "262a3c254b94df1f1bb8c2055d54204c40fdeef699ee2e2274af60919b9aa836"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.18902",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}