Pith Number

pith:ZYQ3PIKB

pith:2026:ZYQ3PIKBUW3WUOFIMS47ZWOBQT

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Stdlib or Third-Party? Empirical Performance and Correctness of LLM-Assisted Zero-Dependency Python Libraries

Peng Ding, Rick Stevens

arxiv:2605.21405 v1 · 2026-05-20 · cs.SE · cs.AI · cs.PL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZYQ3PIKBUW3WUOFIMS47ZWOBQT}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-21T02:05:33.121163Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ce21b7a141a5b76a38a864b9fcd9c184f05e0fa6e80981ad5dd0e63d7aab03e0

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.21405 · arxiv_version: 2605.21405v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.21405 · pith_short_12: ZYQ3PIKBUW3W · pith_short_16: ZYQ3PIKBUW3WUOFI · pith_short_8: ZYQ3PIKB

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/ZYQ3PIKBUW3WUOFIMS47ZWOBQT \
  | 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: ce21b7a141a5b76a38a864b9fcd9c184f05e0fa6e80981ad5dd0e63d7aab03e0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8707d53534629733487d223307f37253f8f0ba25175ef8b5af50f66265690aec",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.PL"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-20T17:02:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4993c6fd67efd090887d922b4e293fd1a13ffbe4414729392cd3d3ccb6e70f82"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.21405",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}