Pith Number

pith:22W4DGI6

pith:2026:22W4DGI6GO3AN5TYZSHGDPDZXG

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The Self-Correction Illusion: LLMs Correct Others but Not Themselves

Fang-Yi Su, Jung-Hsien Chiang, Kuan-Yen Chen

arxiv:2606.05976 v1 · 2026-06-04 · cs.AI · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{22W4DGI6GO3AN5TYZSHGDPDZXG}

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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	2026-06-05T01:15:29.246021Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d6adc1991e33b606f678cc8e61bc79b9b64bb7e6f7a347e8e822575222e5eb74

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.05976 · arxiv_version: 2606.05976v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.05976 · pith_short_12: 22W4DGI6GO3A · pith_short_16: 22W4DGI6GO3AN5TY · pith_short_8: 22W4DGI6

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/22W4DGI6GO3AN5TYZSHGDPDZXG \
  | 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: d6adc1991e33b606f678cc8e61bc79b9b64bb7e6f7a347e8e822575222e5eb74

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5f9516ee2cd326ac9667c9f29f9dd3e0a2fe1193e1d9e7efa4fb3a9de16e3846",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-04T10:17:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f243b2d84bc8232e746e459f7dea76c21e4cbe3bd73ba7984956ca2ab33e2aed"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.05976",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}