Pith Number

pith:Q4BJCYTZ

pith:2026:Q4BJCYTZ4CLKTI2QINALY3SAFD

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One mechanism for many mental spaces: a shared router over a value slot in language models

Jiangtao Wen, Oliver Steele, Yuxing Han

arxiv:2607.10248 v1 · 2026-07-11 · cs.CL · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Q4BJCYTZ4CLKTI2QINALY3SAFD}

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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	2026-07-14T01:20:32.764811Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8702916279e096a9a3504340bc6e4028d644a88d03e07ba7b8cdebaa5fab02bd

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.10248 · arxiv_version: 2607.10248v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.10248 · pith_short_12: Q4BJCYTZ4CLK · pith_short_16: Q4BJCYTZ4CLKTI2Q · pith_short_8: Q4BJCYTZ

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/Q4BJCYTZ4CLKTI2QINALY3SAFD \
  | 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: 8702916279e096a9a3504340bc6e4028d644a88d03e07ba7b8cdebaa5fab02bd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9399ee7884c843533ccc670eed7007f49ff28d1417b9aab6110f181788c60b47",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-11T10:30:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "25c266e46519a25001fe4f1183b67106b1cc6d7493f6196fb4bbb121b8ba5d5b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.10248",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}