Pith Number

pith:HSGNBVH3

pith:2026:HSGNBVH3LD4KXQV2CXNDFANNBF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Structured Output Collapses Answer Diversity Across 44 Language Models

Tapan Parikh

arxiv:2607.18476 v1 · 2026-07-20 · cs.CL · cs.AI · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HSGNBVH3LD4KXQV2CXNDFANNBF}

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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	2026-07-22T00:22:50.574359Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3c8cd0d4fb58f8abc2ba15da3281ad09694338bc5e219146069d5fe126e9804d

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.18476 · arxiv_version: 2607.18476v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.18476 · pith_short_12: HSGNBVH3LD4K · pith_short_16: HSGNBVH3LD4KXQV2 · pith_short_8: HSGNBVH3

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/HSGNBVH3LD4KXQV2CXNDFANNBF \
  | 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: 3c8cd0d4fb58f8abc2ba15da3281ad09694338bc5e219146069d5fe126e9804d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "355acde46a397a9c9532a2b2629b2332f897f1a5bee15d86f59c87a12bebf6ab",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-20T19:47:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9f03ec765d565b8b70d1e388f30c74d33c9d9623050a1dd01bd5bf20d11158e3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.18476",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}