Pith Number

pith:TWZYCI6Y

pith:2026:TWZYCI6YROJW5DCR5JO4BVZL3V

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When Built-in Thinking Helps and Hurts: Constraint-Level Error Shifts in Instruction Following

Sai Adith Senthil Kumar

arxiv:2606.09662 v1 · 2026-06-08 · cs.CL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TWZYCI6YROJW5DCR5JO4BVZL3V}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-06-09T02:09:02.217374Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9db38123d88b936e8c51ea5dc0d72bdd6d36348fa2e3f18ba3b26047ac6471d2

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.09662 · arxiv_version: 2606.09662v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.09662 · pith_short_12: TWZYCI6YROJW · pith_short_16: TWZYCI6YROJW5DCR · pith_short_8: TWZYCI6Y

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/TWZYCI6YROJW5DCR5JO4BVZL3V \
  | 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: 9db38123d88b936e8c51ea5dc0d72bdd6d36348fa2e3f18ba3b26047ac6471d2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e310d13b63848185f745291760370a6f1ee410b37c98d3f9bfee69ee5b0a8e0a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-08T15:45:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c5e88714ffb7f33a824849147f15a86255619af6ae9cd38b3e2aa38587269089"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.09662",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}