Pith Number

pith:JVHPLJH3

pith:2026:JVHPLJH3NEVCMBNJ2ZR7QWKHVU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Bootstrapped Monitoring: Leveraging Transparent Reasoning to Oversee Stronger AI Agents

Frank Xiao, Mary Phuong

arxiv:2606.11998 v1 · 2026-06-10 · cs.LG

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JVHPLJH3NEVCMBNJ2ZR7QWKHVU}

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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	2026-06-11T01:10:41.618197Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4d4ef5a4fb692a2605a9d663f85947ad16e02daf45f4aa9faa49a91b138e739f

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.11998 · arxiv_version: 2606.11998v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.11998 · pith_short_12: JVHPLJH3NEVC · pith_short_16: JVHPLJH3NEVCMBNJ · pith_short_8: JVHPLJH3

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/JVHPLJH3NEVCMBNJ2ZR7QWKHVU \
  | 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: 4d4ef5a4fb692a2605a9d663f85947ad16e02daf45f4aa9faa49a91b138e739f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8a378fcb12e1f4fad119e391b10c1c5ad338649bfa52172e247e23a16bcefb14",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-10T12:24:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "99727cd9c94f936ec9128d4a64cdbe7088702e54b75b3fe79bd63dfdecfcdcbf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.11998",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}