Pith Number

pith:3GHXP7WL

pith:2026:3GHXP7WLXCRELTP2YUXC2PSAIL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Hallucination as Commitment Failure: Larger LLMs Misfire Despite Knowing the Answer

Heejun Kim, Jaewon Sok, Jeongjae Park, Jewon Yeom, Seonghyeon Park, Taesup Kim

arxiv:2605.22007 v1 · 2026-05-21 · cs.CL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3GHXP7WLXCRELTP2YUXC2PSAIL}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-22T01:04:20.124896Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d98f77fecbb8a245cdfac52e2d3e4042eb0ecdd64504a8a10634b29f171c7f7b

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.22007 · arxiv_version: 2605.22007v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.22007 · pith_short_12: 3GHXP7WLXCRE · pith_short_16: 3GHXP7WLXCRELTP2 · pith_short_8: 3GHXP7WL

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/3GHXP7WLXCRELTP2YUXC2PSAIL \
  | 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: d98f77fecbb8a245cdfac52e2d3e4042eb0ecdd64504a8a10634b29f171c7f7b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "338340b891c0fe3d461e0c02968e7138ead607e1a31d890de68292669f229c25",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-21T05:08:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e355f40dbbd8a0ca5df2c35155f97f41504a22087a2824baeffa9828885937d3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.22007",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}