Pith Number

pith:LYRXKUIC

pith:2026:LYRXKUICZQ4YOI3IDHGZ6NXAMQ

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On the Limits of Steering Vectors for Preference-Aligned Generation

Kathleen McKeown, Melanie Subbiah, Zara Hall

arxiv:2607.01802 v1 · 2026-07-02 · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LYRXKUICZQ4YOI3IDHGZ6NXAMQ}

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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	2026-07-03T01:17:30.314665Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5e23755102cc3987236819cd9f36e06402e9ef809215126987f423091b570c1c

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.01802 · arxiv_version: 2607.01802v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.01802 · pith_short_12: LYRXKUICZQ4Y · pith_short_16: LYRXKUICZQ4YOI3I · pith_short_8: LYRXKUIC

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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/LYRXKUICZQ4YOI3IDHGZ6NXAMQ \
  | 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: 5e23755102cc3987236819cd9f36e06402e9ef809215126987f423091b570c1c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "78956e55117587b205f730f6cd119ae453d3ec7d807891c4758f4b955c79a5e4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-02T07:18:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "15698f6edd8ae000570d6c7b8f0f0680e10ad3108e1819dec7b649c981d1dd3d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.01802",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}