Pith Number

pith:KICZQ2UC

pith:2026:KICZQ2UCKZDVVRD4NPLIEWCNAG

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From Tokens to States: LLMs as a Special Case of World Models and the Continuous Path Beyond

Paul Dubois

arxiv:2606.28127 v1 · 2026-06-26 · cs.CL · cs.AI · cs.LG

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KICZQ2UCKZDVVRD4NPLIEWCNAG}

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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	2026-06-29T01:15:06.782225Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5205986a8256475ac47c6bd682584d01a619d212cf6c53e1f2eaed4ff2f7b275

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.28127 · arxiv_version: 2606.28127v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.28127 · pith_short_12: KICZQ2UCKZDV · pith_short_16: KICZQ2UCKZDVVRD4 · pith_short_8: KICZQ2UC

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/KICZQ2UCKZDVVRD4NPLIEWCNAG \
  | 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: 5205986a8256475ac47c6bd682584d01a619d212cf6c53e1f2eaed4ff2f7b275

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "694b7ab01c365f0a3bbd13b353448458474618525c2441e5d8192ccfff902893",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-26T14:27:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b4d4b0dbc59d37bb0f2cc0247a6c2d48fb938804e7167f8987e9c720d8c49f0a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.28127",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}