Pith Number

pith:5YIIL3EU

pith:2026:5YIIL3EU3I6MTEEKP7EXRDBQRX

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Memory as a Wasting Asset: Pricing Flash Endurance for Embodied Agents, and the Limits of Doing So

Josef Liyanjun Chen

arxiv:2606.18144 v1 · 2026-06-16 · cs.AI · cs.CY · cs.LG · cs.RO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5YIIL3EU3I6MTEEKP7EXRDBQRX}

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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	2026-06-19T16:10:49.450395Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ee1085ec94da3cc9908a7fc9788c308dea021aa5664acaeefe8e9d51d07f5d91

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.18144 · arxiv_version: 2606.18144v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.18144 · pith_short_12: 5YIIL3EU3I6M · pith_short_16: 5YIIL3EU3I6MTEEK · pith_short_8: 5YIIL3EU

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/5YIIL3EU3I6MTEEKP7EXRDBQRX \
  | 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: ee1085ec94da3cc9908a7fc9788c308dea021aa5664acaeefe8e9d51d07f5d91

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "692878c330d5d8413039796cfbd33ad63314834e30f718188bda0327e30dd556",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY",
      "cs.LG",
      "cs.RO"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-16T16:43:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c69de5aee393989ad82ff751f7233163365b980d222c3699f4c22e0ca97dc889"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.18144",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}