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pith:SA2NGJYG

pith:2025:SA2NGJYG4MOKEFGOSNMHOHTZ2N

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Towards Unified Attribution in Explainable AI, Data-Centric AI, and Mechanistic Interpretability

Himabindu Lakkaraju, Shichang Zhang, Tessa Han, Usha Bhalla

arxiv:2501.18887 v3 · 2025-01-31 · cs.LG · cs.AI

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:11:40.210376Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

9034d32706e31ca214ce9358771e79d35402e4be3fffdac6ad5a9a126cde64c1

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arxiv: 2501.18887 · arxiv_version: 2501.18887v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2501.18887 · pith_short_12: SA2NGJYG4MOK · pith_short_16: SA2NGJYG4MOKEFGO · pith_short_8: SA2NGJYG

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/SA2NGJYG4MOKEFGOSNMHOHTZ2N \
  | 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: 9034d32706e31ca214ce9358771e79d35402e4be3fffdac6ad5a9a126cde64c1

Canonical record JSON

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    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2025-01-31T04:42:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "209400c41cd426d9259f80a3d1f9b6c9cd7dcd0f2062d5f8ae9d80ed55a17c77"
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