{"record_type":"pith_number_record","schema_url":"https://pith.science/schemas/pith-number/v1.json","pith_number":"pith:2026:22W4DGI6GO3AN5TYZSHGDPDZXG","short_pith_number":"pith:22W4DGI6","schema_version":"1.0","canonical_sha256":"d6adc1991e33b606f678cc8e61bc79b9b64bb7e6f7a347e8e822575222e5eb74","source":{"kind":"arxiv","id":"2606.05976","version":1},"attestation_state":"computed","paper":{"title":"The Self-Correction Illusion: LLMs Correct Others but Not Themselves","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["cs.CL"],"primary_cat":"cs.AI","authors_text":"Fang-Yi Su, Jung-Hsien Chiang, Kuan-Yen Chen","submitted_at":"2026-06-04T10:17:00Z","abstract_excerpt":"Recent work shows that LLM agents struggle to correct errors in their own reasoning traces yet show markedly higher correction rates when identical claims appear under external sources. We ask whether this asymmetry reflects a capability deficit or a role-label artifact: does an agent's willingness to correct a wrong claim depend causally on the chat-template role that carries it, rather than on the claim's content? Our setup keeps the erroneous claim byte-identical across all conditions (SHA-256 verified) and varies only its wrapping role: the agent's own \\role{<thought>}, a \\role{user} messa"},"verification_status":{"content_addressed":true,"pith_receipt":true,"author_attested":false,"weak_author_claims":0,"strong_author_claims":0,"externally_anchored":false,"storage_verified":false,"citation_signatures":0,"replication_records":0,"graph_snapshot":true,"references_resolved":false,"formal_links_present":false},"canonical_record":{"source":{"id":"2606.05976","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"metadata":{"license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","primary_cat":"cs.AI","submitted_at":"2026-06-04T10:17:00Z","cross_cats_sorted":["cs.CL"],"title_canon_sha256":"f243b2d84bc8232e746e459f7dea76c21e4cbe3bd73ba7984956ca2ab33e2aed","abstract_canon_sha256":"5f9516ee2cd326ac9667c9f29f9dd3e0a2fe1193e1d9e7efa4fb3a9de16e3846"},"schema_version":"1.0"},"receipt":{"kind":"pith_receipt","key_id":"pith-v1-2026-05","algorithm":"ed25519","signed_at":"2026-06-05T01:15:29.246480Z","signature_b64":"pzKRKFSUdAjHjwy7No+rqVKV/7Nq7lH8WQE1FoHYQAV4QNAQRXigp4kKLZ2HXM7F8XnnPwFcIkQ/AxAQ8/MlCw==","signed_message":"canonical_sha256_bytes","builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1","receipt_version":"0.3","canonical_sha256":"d6adc1991e33b606f678cc8e61bc79b9b64bb7e6f7a347e8e822575222e5eb74","last_reissued_at":"2026-06-05T01:15:29.246021Z","signature_status":"signed_v1","first_computed_at":"2026-06-05T01:15:29.246021Z","public_key_fingerprint":"8d4b5ee74e4693bcd1df2446408b0d54"},"graph_snapshot":{"paper":{"title":"The Self-Correction Illusion: LLMs Correct Others but Not Themselves","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["cs.CL"],"primary_cat":"cs.AI","authors_text":"Fang-Yi Su, Jung-Hsien Chiang, Kuan-Yen Chen","submitted_at":"2026-06-04T10:17:00Z","abstract_excerpt":"Recent work shows that LLM agents struggle to correct errors in their own reasoning traces yet show markedly higher correction rates when identical claims appear under external sources. We ask whether this asymmetry reflects a capability deficit or a role-label artifact: does an agent's willingness to correct a wrong claim depend causally on the chat-template role that carries it, rather than on the claim's content? Our setup keeps the erroneous claim byte-identical across all conditions (SHA-256 verified) and varies only its wrapping role: the agent's own \\role{<thought>}, a \\role{user} messa"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"2606.05976","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"integrity":{"clean":true,"summary":{"advisory":0,"critical":0,"by_detector":{},"informational":0},"endpoint":"/pith/2606.05976/integrity.json","findings":[],"available":true,"detectors_run":[],"snapshot_sha256":"c28c3603d3b5d939e8dc4c7e95fa8dfce3d595e45f758748cecf8e644a296938"},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"},"aliases":[{"alias_kind":"arxiv","alias_value":"2606.05976","created_at":"2026-06-05T01:15:29.246079+00:00"},{"alias_kind":"arxiv_version","alias_value":"2606.05976v1","created_at":"2026-06-05T01:15:29.246079+00:00"},{"alias_kind":"doi","alias_value":"10.48550/arxiv.2606.05976","created_at":"2026-06-05T01:15:29.246079+00:00"},{"alias_kind":"pith_short_12","alias_value":"22W4DGI6GO3A","created_at":"2026-06-05T01:15:29.246079+00:00"},{"alias_kind":"pith_short_16","alias_value":"22W4DGI6GO3AN5TY","created_at":"2026-06-05T01:15:29.246079+00:00"},{"alias_kind":"pith_short_8","alias_value":"22W4DGI6","created_at":"2026-06-05T01:15:29.246079+00:00"}],"events":[],"event_summary":{},"paper_claims":[],"inbound_citations":{"count":0,"internal_anchor_count":0,"sample":[]},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"sample":[],"anchors":[]},"links":{"html":"https://pith.science/pith/22W4DGI6GO3AN5TYZSHGDPDZXG","json":"https://pith.science/pith/22W4DGI6GO3AN5TYZSHGDPDZXG.json","graph_json":"https://pith.science/api/pith-number/22W4DGI6GO3AN5TYZSHGDPDZXG/graph.json","events_json":"https://pith.science/api/pith-number/22W4DGI6GO3AN5TYZSHGDPDZXG/events.json","paper":"https://pith.science/paper/22W4DGI6"},"agent_actions":{"view_html":"https://pith.science/pith/22W4DGI6GO3AN5TYZSHGDPDZXG","download_json":"https://pith.science/pith/22W4DGI6GO3AN5TYZSHGDPDZXG.json","view_paper":"https://pith.science/paper/22W4DGI6","resolve_alias":"https://pith.science/api/pith-number/resolve?arxiv=2606.05976&json=true","fetch_graph":"https://pith.science/api/pith-number/22W4DGI6GO3AN5TYZSHGDPDZXG/graph.json","fetch_events":"https://pith.science/api/pith-number/22W4DGI6GO3AN5TYZSHGDPDZXG/events.json","actions":{"anchor_timestamp":"https://pith.science/pith/22W4DGI6GO3AN5TYZSHGDPDZXG/action/timestamp_anchor","attest_storage":"https://pith.science/pith/22W4DGI6GO3AN5TYZSHGDPDZXG/action/storage_attestation","attest_author":"https://pith.science/pith/22W4DGI6GO3AN5TYZSHGDPDZXG/action/author_attestation","sign_citation":"https://pith.science/pith/22W4DGI6GO3AN5TYZSHGDPDZXG/action/citation_signature","submit_replication":"https://pith.science/pith/22W4DGI6GO3AN5TYZSHGDPDZXG/action/replication_record"}},"created_at":"2026-06-05T01:15:29.246079+00:00","updated_at":"2026-06-05T01:15:29.246079+00:00"}