Pith Number

pith:NUQ3NKIA

pith:2025:NUQ3NKIA2B6BD24NMNLTEPTWRL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Statistical Guarantees in the Search for Less Discriminatory Algorithms

Ben Laufer, Chris Hays, Manish Raghavan, Solon Barocas

arxiv:2512.23943 v2 · 2025-12-30 · cs.CY · cs.LG · stat.ME

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NUQ3NKIA2B6BD24NMNLTEPTWRL}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-21T02:04:56.551214Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6d21b6a900d07c11eb8d6357323e768af0368f66a950567aef8590c9ca120bb9

Aliases

arxiv: 2512.23943 · arxiv_version: 2512.23943v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2512.23943 · pith_short_12: NUQ3NKIA2B6B · pith_short_16: NUQ3NKIA2B6BD24N · pith_short_8: NUQ3NKIA

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/NUQ3NKIA2B6BD24NMNLTEPTWRL \
  | 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: 6d21b6a900d07c11eb8d6357323e768af0368f66a950567aef8590c9ca120bb9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "46aba2ffa746607d9878925e4e2dce940b0fefcc6be51fb33fd6ac89f5b42124",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "stat.ME"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2025-12-30T02:20:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "af0b5e3bbfba48af87859adc3611367a279a4255ac39f541e6f1974b430c4906"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2512.23943",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}