Pith Number

pith:ZBTHNPRE

pith:2025:ZBTHNPREHTVE2JDQ3BKYBTXTYR

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Deterministic or probabilistic? The psychology of LLMs as random number generators

Javier Coronado-Bl\'azquez

arxiv:2502.19965 v1 · 2025-02-27 · cs.CL · cs.AI

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\pithnumber{ZBTHNPREHTVE2JDQ3BKYBTXTYR}

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The Randomness Floor: Measuring Intrinsic Non-Randomness in Language Model Token Distributions

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First computed	2026-07-05T10:20:55.896983Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c86676be243cea4d2470d85580cef3c459a7a7cd8c2f8bed0640642f19c9a03b

Aliases

arxiv: 2502.19965 · arxiv_version: 2502.19965v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2502.19965 · pith_short_12: ZBTHNPREHTVE · pith_short_16: ZBTHNPREHTVE2JDQ · pith_short_8: ZBTHNPRE

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ZBTHNPREHTVE2JDQ3BKYBTXTYR \
  | 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: c86676be243cea4d2470d85580cef3c459a7a7cd8c2f8bed0640642f19c9a03b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "08ce3e0ac7ad31b8f7b15775a76b7a161f79fdf99087c820b950022e2bc48cc7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2025-02-27T10:45:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "10e76a98ce4607462e6acc3e255d27d5b42531c8a136028565c15b1905d1a16f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2502.19965",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}