Pith Number

pith:KKKSEY7P

pith:2026:KKKSEY7PFMMHSWIPO67KLBO2P7

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Surprise as a Signal for Plasticity and Metacognition

Louis Mouchon

arxiv:2606.31495 v1 · 2026-06-30 · cs.AI · cs.LG

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KKKSEY7PFMMHSWIPO67KLBO2P7}

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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	2026-07-01T01:18:05.024965Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

52952263ef2b1879590f77bea585da7fc32ace02ab59bd8289d8b00c814923f9

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.31495 · arxiv_version: 2606.31495v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.31495 · pith_short_12: KKKSEY7PFMMH · pith_short_16: KKKSEY7PFMMHSWIP · pith_short_8: KKKSEY7P

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/KKKSEY7PFMMHSWIPO67KLBO2P7 \
  | 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: 52952263ef2b1879590f77bea585da7fc32ace02ab59bd8289d8b00c814923f9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "23c6372d135054d9cf595789fb2827b316f9596700b59b196365280604ba9d47",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-30T11:14:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "88d7a5918b487e08939bc70c596705a31d2c2703495f6f6befb097a920e59ec8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.31495",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}