Pith Number

pith:LZCAFGH2

pith:2026:LZCAFGH23DR2UFUNNIH44L353V

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A Subjective Logic-based method for runtime confidence updates in safety arguments

Benjamin Herd, Clarissa Heinemann, Jessica Kelly, Jo\~ao-Vitor Zacchi

arxiv:2605.22530 v1 · 2026-05-21 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LZCAFGH23DR2UFUNNIH44L353V}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-22T01:04:49.272800Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5e440298fad8e3aa168d6a0fce2f7ddd5947ef2724e11cb5ec2cd96a0a1228e2

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.22530 · arxiv_version: 2605.22530v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.22530 · pith_short_12: LZCAFGH23DR2 · pith_short_16: LZCAFGH23DR2UFUN · pith_short_8: LZCAFGH2

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LZCAFGH23DR2UFUNNIH44L353V \
  | 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: 5e440298fad8e3aa168d6a0fce2f7ddd5947ef2724e11cb5ec2cd96a0a1228e2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "19d14539bdb07cae748b2513d9ce325b1237caa0870382f9b85237675582f86c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-21T14:20:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "17b574ee04474df62a8891399c81f0a1853aee316fd3625998888cfafc49938b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.22530",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}