Pith Number

pith:5RK3ZP3E

pith:2026:5RK3ZP3EN2SD7DP46W3LPK7Q4G

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Decomposing how prompting steers behavior

Fan L. Cheng, Nikolaus Kriegeskorte

arxiv:2606.03093 v1 · 2026-06-02 · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5RK3ZP3EN2SD7DP46W3LPK7Q4G}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-06-03T01:05:31.460831Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ec55bcbf646ea43f8dfcf5b6b7abf0e18686872688c844c38ea86ab9a2f2cc2e

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.03093 · arxiv_version: 2606.03093v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.03093 · pith_short_12: 5RK3ZP3EN2SD · pith_short_16: 5RK3ZP3EN2SD7DP4 · pith_short_8: 5RK3ZP3E

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/5RK3ZP3EN2SD7DP46W3LPK7Q4G \
  | 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: ec55bcbf646ea43f8dfcf5b6b7abf0e18686872688c844c38ea86ab9a2f2cc2e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8c25d4b967a9407edd304624227738614923703304f2ab28111213bf71e3e627",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-02T03:27:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f1bf58eeabcbf6cd446bfbcf587cedfa7547ab7276e11492379e7447b2a7a027"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.03093",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}