Pith Number

pith:3TRSHRY6

pith:2026:3TRSHRY66KYLSDZRW2EWGMIH46

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When Should LLMs Be Less Specific? Selective Abstraction for Reliable Long-Form Text Generation

Ido Galil, Ran El-Yaniv, Shani Goren

arxiv:2602.11908 v3 · 2026-02-12 · cs.AI · cs.CL · cs.LG

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\pithnumber{3TRSHRY66KYLSDZRW2EWGMIH46}

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Answer Only as Precisely as Justified: Calibrated Claim-Level Specificity Control for Agentic Systems

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First computed	2026-06-03T01:05:10.579364Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dce323c71ef2b0b90f31b689633107e787131e45afb259a95fe361bbfd070447

Aliases

arxiv: 2602.11908 · arxiv_version: 2602.11908v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2602.11908 · pith_short_12: 3TRSHRY66KYL · pith_short_16: 3TRSHRY66KYLSDZR · pith_short_8: 3TRSHRY6

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/3TRSHRY66KYLSDZRW2EWGMIH46 \
  | 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: dce323c71ef2b0b90f31b689633107e787131e45afb259a95fe361bbfd070447

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a98088143a31348a009455c142d910d10c75320551622efb97a48d2f8a9b3d94",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-02-12T13:06:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0b275e5dd3fb68c58b780c3d7f6d94423737a89a8a3540e21a18242be28bb23b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2602.11908",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}