Pith Number

pith:6VUC3TCS

pith:2026:6VUC3TCSYMHHQOZGCEE327ZFUC

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Uncertainty Decomposition for Clarification Seeking in LLM Agents

Gregory Matsnev

arxiv:2606.19559 v1 · 2026-06-17 · cs.AI · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6VUC3TCSYMHHQOZGCEE327ZFUC}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-06-19T16:12:28.920017Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f5682dcc52c30e783b261109bd7f25a0a95fc1abac244cd85068a0a1032bef55

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.19559 · arxiv_version: 2606.19559v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.19559 · pith_short_12: 6VUC3TCSYMHH · pith_short_16: 6VUC3TCSYMHHQOZG · pith_short_8: 6VUC3TCS

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6VUC3TCSYMHHQOZGCEE327ZFUC \
  | 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: f5682dcc52c30e783b261109bd7f25a0a95fc1abac244cd85068a0a1032bef55

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d352d995dbbdc83d8dbaa7c29f3ec7ce4be85c43510969bf35e2a6ae45c761ef",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-17T19:59:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fcff8cb5881b0796be0fb1cf0d51219e7eeb884819dce25bd3f9287ccff2d22c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.19559",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}