Pith Number

pith:A6A6V2IL

pith:2025:A6A6V2ILJX2RFKE2NXSQXTN5IM

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Can LLMs Lie? Investigation beyond Hallucination

Deepak Pathak, Haoran Huan, Mengning Wu, Mihir Prabhudesai, Shantanu Jaiswal

arxiv:2509.03518 v1 · 2025-09-03 · cs.LG

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\pithnumber{A6A6V2ILJX2RFKE2NXSQXTN5IM}

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4 Citations open

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First computed	2026-07-05T12:04:24.047220Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0781eae90b4df512a89a6de50bcdbd4320d20f7e7fd9915f7d68203f5a613b01

Aliases

arxiv: 2509.03518 · arxiv_version: 2509.03518v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2509.03518 · pith_short_12: A6A6V2ILJX2R · pith_short_16: A6A6V2ILJX2RFKE2 · pith_short_8: A6A6V2IL

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/A6A6V2ILJX2RFKE2NXSQXTN5IM \
  | 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: 0781eae90b4df512a89a6de50bcdbd4320d20f7e7fd9915f7d68203f5a613b01

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "aabbf08a5df0e6e6dfede8a3db591e76854e06b76cc360d3a821d1aee2f20740",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2025-09-03T17:59:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8cf657ec98035c2c27349af7a764839e0f67ee63998a87cdbfbd2883b897eb31"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2509.03518",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}