Pith Number

pith:ZYX5SW4M

pith:2024:ZYX5SW4MWFY2C5366JSPBTM6YQ

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Joseph Gatto, Madhusudan Basak, Omar Sharif, Parker Seegmiller, Sarah Masud Preum

arxiv:2404.01147 v1 · 2024-04-01 · cs.CL · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZYX5SW4MWFY2C5366JSPBTM6YQ}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-05T08:03:01.550154Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ce2fd95b8cb171a1777ef264f0cd9ec400c5c5b5edc2a30d74dc019e426c94a2

Aliases

arxiv: 2404.01147 · arxiv_version: 2404.01147v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2404.01147 · pith_short_12: ZYX5SW4MWFY2 · pith_short_16: ZYX5SW4MWFY2C536 · pith_short_8: ZYX5SW4M

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/ZYX5SW4MWFY2C5366JSPBTM6YQ \
  | 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: ce2fd95b8cb171a1777ef264f0cd9ec400c5c5b5edc2a30d74dc019e426c94a2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b877e9476b49224097f7ec1c53cdac5834a2f70d8c168fc5e6f1bb4a7fa5e0cc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2024-04-01T14:46:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "075ab919ef4cb79926bbe9643abc5020c60f31dfbfe34e0eb4ec2daf954871d5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2404.01147",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}