Pith Number

pith:UI25QO6E

pith:2026:UI25QO6E4LX5W5BBZYQDZH3HQG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Probing the Misaligned Thinking Process of Language Models

Constantin Venhoff, Jonathan Michala, Kaiwen Zhou, William Saunders, Xin Eric Wang

arxiv:2606.24251 v1 · 2026-06-23 · cs.AI

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UI25QO6E4LX5W5BBZYQDZH3HQG}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-06-24T01:14:48.042986Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a235d83bc4e2efdb7421ce203c9f6781b2c560cf54b5f0a6cbc191d23514b14b

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.24251 · arxiv_version: 2606.24251v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.24251 · pith_short_12: UI25QO6E4LX5 · pith_short_16: UI25QO6E4LX5W5BB · pith_short_8: UI25QO6E

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/UI25QO6E4LX5W5BBZYQDZH3HQG \
  | 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: a235d83bc4e2efdb7421ce203c9f6781b2c560cf54b5f0a6cbc191d23514b14b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f9a54a0b028742456d73739cdc8a20c6b759ebfb1a2bd165946252802b1cf07f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-23T07:40:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2eb4af61673ecd1dfa2fd176569228033e3f9afcadd28d8966276a3200514e84"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.24251",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}