Pith Number

pith:3ESC47GC

pith:2025:3ESC47GCWU5MGIAALVC63NH64D

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Do LLMs Know When to Flip a Coin? Strategic Randomization through Reasoning and Experience

Lingyu Yang (1) ((1) Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

arxiv:2506.18928 v1 · 2025-06-21 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3ESC47GCWU5MGIAALVC63NH64D}

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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	2026-07-05T11:26:06.687766Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d9242e7cc2b53ac320005d45edb4fee0dc6192872619745a74f1f5e5e54b801d

Aliases

arxiv: 2506.18928 · arxiv_version: 2506.18928v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.18928 · pith_short_12: 3ESC47GCWU5M · pith_short_16: 3ESC47GCWU5MGIAA · pith_short_8: 3ESC47GC

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/3ESC47GCWU5MGIAALVC63NH64D \
  | 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: d9242e7cc2b53ac320005d45edb4fee0dc6192872619745a74f1f5e5e54b801d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0c5225b78fa1439df3225084e285b4e36cb378bb51acf554cb75a72837eb4a74",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2025-06-21T05:26:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f3b3cc8c080d5b9482a2886cca9af823c6f3ebe131b624aaa18dbcbe494f23f6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2506.18928",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}