Pith Number

pith:37ZCEIGW

pith:2026:37ZCEIGWIU3EFSY37NLQMUHYZ4

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Confidence Laundering in Agent Systems: Why Uncertainty Needs a Latent Carrier

Colby Nelson, Han Bao, Kaiwen Shi, Yanfang Ye, Zheyuan Zhang

arxiv:2606.20662 v1 · 2026-06-09 · cs.AI · cs.MA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{37ZCEIGWIU3EFSY37NLQMUHYZ4}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-06-23T00:11:52.943850Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dff22220d6453642cb1bfb570650f8cf226365be910d93953e49fc64b643b02d

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.20662 · arxiv_version: 2606.20662v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.20662 · pith_short_12: 37ZCEIGWIU3E · pith_short_16: 37ZCEIGWIU3EFSY3 · pith_short_8: 37ZCEIGW

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/37ZCEIGWIU3EFSY37NLQMUHYZ4 \
  | 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: dff22220d6453642cb1bfb570650f8cf226365be910d93953e49fc64b643b02d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "986fd6e425509e24db02d9b4f94c92e12ffec5993fe2613226696d300c169bad",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.MA"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-09T23:13:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "dcc0a48235bb242c6e5aae59dd7764fbe6d179c635ea1c19c835b0a13b13e157"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.20662",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}