Pith Number

pith:VTECX7LG

pith:2026:VTECX7LG57DWYY5MQZ7WFCQQFE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Beyond Memorization: Distinguishing Between Pattern-Based and Epistemic Reasoning in LLMs Using Epistemic Puzzles

Adi Gabay, Gabriel Stanovsky, Liat Peterfreund

arxiv:2603.21350 v2 · 2026-03-22 · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VTECX7LG57DWYY5MQZ7WFCQQFE}

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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	2026-06-10T01:08:34.887084Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

acc82bfd66efc76c63ac867f628a1029379e3c36e18145042c729d43fab8ce8c

Aliases

arxiv: 2603.21350 · arxiv_version: 2603.21350v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2603.21350 · pith_short_12: VTECX7LG57DW · pith_short_16: VTECX7LG57DWYY5M · pith_short_8: VTECX7LG

Agent API

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VTECX7LG57DWYY5MQZ7WFCQQFE \
  | 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: acc82bfd66efc76c63ac867f628a1029379e3c36e18145042c729d43fab8ce8c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e930e0e444237acf7c9b48518f6e14d0ddc9f14140d9b330bf46568ecfd15f2e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-03-22T18:18:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "35955f6279a9596892856e65d20030fa05fd86595f9700330df71a484009ec94"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2603.21350",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}