Pith Number

pith:NFUF4BBE

pith:2026:NFUF4BBECEETWS5RDTXN2AZ5FM

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How Do LLMs Cite? A Mechanistic Interpretation of Attribution in Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Ian van Dort (University of Amsterdam), Maria Heuss (University of Amsterdam)

arxiv:2606.28358 v1 · 2026-06-09 · cs.IR · cs.AI · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NFUF4BBECEETWS5RDTXN2AZ5FM}

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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.

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First computed	2026-06-30T00:15:11.909672Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

69685e042411093b4bb11ceedd033d2b28b0f713ec9b3cb8147f9f026f9993f3

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.28358 · arxiv_version: 2606.28358v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.28358 · pith_short_12: NFUF4BBECEET · pith_short_16: NFUF4BBECEETWS5R · pith_short_8: NFUF4BBE

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NFUF4BBECEETWS5RDTXN2AZ5FM \
  | 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: 69685e042411093b4bb11ceedd033d2b28b0f713ec9b3cb8147f9f026f9993f3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b0faae5619f3c0adc291c266cb13ef1745f2aa51896170252e2c46905ff6ee68",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-09T07:06:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2b864ccf1c2dbac7a156768c7e8327db83d5fc3dc1140d9ad54d518430530b88"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.28358",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}