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pith:3TDPXFSX

pith:2025:3TDPXFSXBJLCU3LJJDBH2HIPGY

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Functional Abstraction of Knowledge Recall in Large Language Models

Chang Xu, Zijian Wang

arxiv:2504.14496 v1 · 2025-04-20 · cs.CL

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First computed	2026-07-05T10:51:44.374505Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dcc6fb96570a562a6d6948c27d1d0f3618a2087335775f94a1fb38c42333996c

Aliases

arxiv: 2504.14496 · arxiv_version: 2504.14496v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2504.14496 · pith_short_12: 3TDPXFSXBJLC · pith_short_16: 3TDPXFSXBJLCU3LJ · pith_short_8: 3TDPXFSX

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/3TDPXFSXBJLCU3LJJDBH2HIPGY \
  | 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: dcc6fb96570a562a6d6948c27d1d0f3618a2087335775f94a1fb38c42333996c

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2025-04-20T05:17:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0d647d72360fc8200fadead79ef20edcf0eb7840a59600c7f3e65c7dede6781a"
  },
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  "source": {
    "id": "2504.14496",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}