Pith Number

pith:XH2FD2HE

pith:2026:XH2FD2HEQB5AWR3DMHLA4HHO5E

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StepShield: When, Not Whether to Intervene on Rogue Agents

Gloria Felicia (University of Virginia), Hemant Kumar (University of Arizona), Jinfeng He (Cornell University), Michael Eniolade (University of the Cumberlands), Milan Hussain Angati (California State University Northridge), Zitha Sasindran (Indian Institute of Science Bangalore)

arxiv:2601.22136 v2 · 2026-01-29 · cs.LG · cs.AI · cs.CR · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XH2FD2HEQB5AWR3DMHLA4HHO5E}

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First computed	2026-07-08T01:18:24.978146Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b9f451e8e4807a0b476361d60e1ceee93aa28f106d97e2d41e88d9b2aa041dc0

Aliases

arxiv: 2601.22136 · arxiv_version: 2601.22136v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2601.22136 · pith_short_12: XH2FD2HEQB5A · pith_short_16: XH2FD2HEQB5AWR3D · pith_short_8: XH2FD2HE

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/XH2FD2HEQB5AWR3DMHLA4HHO5E \
  | 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: b9f451e8e4807a0b476361d60e1ceee93aa28f106d97e2d41e88d9b2aa041dc0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "27982c3ff44bed23905eaa462a559466eab398056aa6bc8842ce18c4ee8b3742",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.CR",
      "cs.SE"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-01-29T18:55:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5ab9b7da36c07414d5a0d8c370efc553b5b8ad828b28ad124e202ac533c721ff"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2601.22136",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}