Pith Number

pith:ZBUM5DCZ

pith:2024:ZBUM5DCZKJO52NTI2CQ3IKKLSX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Principles of frugal inference and control

Itzel Olivos-Castillo, Paul Schrater, Xaq Pitkow

arxiv:2406.14427 v4 · 2024-06-20 · cs.AI · q-bio.NC

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZBUM5DCZKJO52NTI2CQ3IKKLSX}

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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	2026-05-20T00:02:46.266115Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c868ce8c59525ddd3668d0a1b4294b95e79d7e2a97be282f46920cf25d847b10

Aliases

arxiv: 2406.14427 · arxiv_version: 2406.14427v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2406.14427 · pith_short_12: ZBUM5DCZKJO5 · pith_short_16: ZBUM5DCZKJO52NTI · pith_short_8: ZBUM5DCZ

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/ZBUM5DCZKJO52NTI2CQ3IKKLSX \
  | 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: c868ce8c59525ddd3668d0a1b4294b95e79d7e2a97be282f46920cf25d847b10

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c47e81e7c1f537bd35d475ba18d82bd4e0f9bdc08342da586fd64f1933a6f883",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-bio.NC"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2024-06-20T15:50:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4e5ed079b2062b69ba5e3cd9b2bc90ae400b9f72c604acb5f925241de1abc40d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2406.14427",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}