Pith Number

pith:3QZT4OX7

pith:2026:3QZT4OX7I6R22TGCUBMPMSTWOR

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Reasoning as Pattern Matching: Shared Mechanisms in Human and LLM Everyday Reasoning

Gary Lupyan, Zach Studdiford

arxiv:2606.13607 v1 · 2026-06-11 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3QZT4OX7I6R22TGCUBMPMSTWOR}

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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	2026-06-12T01:10:12.747849Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dc333e3aff47a3ad4cc2a058f64a7674574ada9fd6d94350cc89eb9554428a48

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.13607 · arxiv_version: 2606.13607v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.13607 · pith_short_12: 3QZT4OX7I6R2 · pith_short_16: 3QZT4OX7I6R22TGC · pith_short_8: 3QZT4OX7

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/3QZT4OX7I6R22TGCUBMPMSTWOR \
  | 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: dc333e3aff47a3ad4cc2a058f64a7674574ada9fd6d94350cc89eb9554428a48

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c4e1594b5cfc37fa003311e06540691d7011d3eda72221703b0c580930fc625d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-11T17:23:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fce28bfeb2098157cf3dbf54434bc542f5efa03f4cbdf73ab198ba44fcaaec20"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.13607",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}