Pith Number

pith:ZZVYG2UL

pith:2026:ZZVYG2ULB4RWMI4S77Q7UFEEWM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Easier to Mislead Than to Correct: Harmful and Beneficial Revision in LLM Conformity

Jiaming Qu, Lucheng Fu, Yibo Hu

arxiv:2606.01637 v1 · 2026-06-01 · cs.CL · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZZVYG2ULB4RWMI4S77Q7UFEEWM}

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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	2026-06-02T02:04:38.702331Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ce6b836a8b0f23662392ffe1fa1484b31c72b258a9bd09976a16bc08c75ce08d

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.01637 · arxiv_version: 2606.01637v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.01637 · pith_short_12: ZZVYG2ULB4RW · pith_short_16: ZZVYG2ULB4RWMI4S · pith_short_8: ZZVYG2UL

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/ZZVYG2ULB4RWMI4S77Q7UFEEWM \
  | 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: ce6b836a8b0f23662392ffe1fa1484b31c72b258a9bd09976a16bc08c75ce08d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a54c7658ebd1358e8053e88d417061636362699549921e8fdfc2786507d964bb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-01T03:42:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c72349380cc83198f259d3de20b7160f58e9f7d7bf14d9458cb2d9fd367fd1ca"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.01637",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}