Pith Number

pith:73NXTGGJ

pith:2026:73NXTGGJYHM44SCIHSCNJJALXW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Should I State or Should I Show? Aligning AI with Human Preferences

Keaton Ellis, Wanying Huang

arxiv:2603.29317 v2 · 2026-03-31 · econ.GN · q-fin.EC

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{73NXTGGJYHM44SCIHSCNJJALXW}

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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	2026-06-01T01:02:38.864444Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fedb7998c9c1d9ce48483c84d4a40bbda34f7840437cfe24c0e0e6b63cdb5a93

Aliases

arxiv: 2603.29317 · arxiv_version: 2603.29317v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2603.29317 · pith_short_12: 73NXTGGJYHM4 · pith_short_16: 73NXTGGJYHM44SCI · pith_short_8: 73NXTGGJ

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/73NXTGGJYHM44SCIHSCNJJALXW \
  | 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: fedb7998c9c1d9ce48483c84d4a40bbda34f7840437cfe24c0e0e6b63cdb5a93

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b3e6fd40aec1f0bb0263573ccf213a44be05bef5221de0f7f0586f89417d935c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-fin.EC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "econ.GN",
    "submitted_at": "2026-03-31T06:35:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fb366db9a5ce73375630afdb640d183c3470c67348581c99d13d76d463413c58"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2603.29317",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}