Pith Number

pith:LPZMBQAX

pith:2026:LPZMBQAX5XXZ6IM3CS2RPZWP4B

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GenRec: An LLM-Backed Recommendation Ranker at Netflix

Arjun Rao, Ashish Rastogi, Rein Houthooft, Shradha Sehgal, Yaochen Zhu, Ying Li

arxiv:2608.10257 v1 · 2026-08-10 · cs.IR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LPZMBQAX5XXZ6IM3CS2RPZWP4B}

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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	2026-08-12T00:23:11.952783Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5bf2c0c017edef9f219b14b517e6cfe0496718054e6073b815276b1c68c00e62

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.10257 · arxiv_version: 2608.10257v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.10257 · pith_short_12: LPZMBQAX5XXZ · pith_short_16: LPZMBQAX5XXZ6IM3 · pith_short_8: LPZMBQAX

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/LPZMBQAX5XXZ6IM3CS2RPZWP4B \
  | 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: 5bf2c0c017edef9f219b14b517e6cfe0496718054e6073b815276b1c68c00e62

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4b38c41ff8b2732e61b5ba8e58e7bebd4c84fc832f845509fc5d93ed3626aa8d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-10T21:43:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3286e0ea3d04e1d8e056a76d666dae885b9b884695faab0f16956975a9d820b3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.10257",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}