Pith Number

pith:3M62NNJG

pith:2026:3M62NNJG4GCO27KM7FVMNNNX5O

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Position: It's Time to Optimize LLMs for Self-Consistency

Belinda Z. Li, Ekdeep Singh Lubana, Isha Puri, Itamar Pres, Jacob Andreas, Keya Hu, Laura Ruis, Mehul Damani, Zifan Carl Guo

arxiv:2608.05188 v1 · 2026-07-31 · cs.CL · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3M62NNJG4GCO27KM7FVMNNNX5O}

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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	2026-08-07T00:46:29.752959Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

db3da6b526e184ed7d4cf96ac6b5b7eb912cdda7fe2b63243a0f96fb6e928dcb

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.05188 · arxiv_version: 2608.05188v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.05188 · pith_short_12: 3M62NNJG4GCO · pith_short_16: 3M62NNJG4GCO27KM · pith_short_8: 3M62NNJG

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/3M62NNJG4GCO27KM7FVMNNNX5O \
  | 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: db3da6b526e184ed7d4cf96ac6b5b7eb912cdda7fe2b63243a0f96fb6e928dcb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1e98559a1017dfd25f6410b7b80818a0c53137b11cf0276686a568387f7c7e74",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-31T19:16:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "68ffeecc6af2562b3b63b8e04c31b124472f3e86dfc904c81c8627f0ca406a45"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.05188",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}