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pith:4AGCKVPO

pith:2023:4AGCKVPO4ZZECCAETM5CL4NMLL

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Eliciting Latent Knowledge from Quirky Language Models

Alex Mallen, Julia Kharchenko, Madeline Brumley, Nora Belrose

arxiv:2312.01037 v4 · 2023-12-02 · cs.LG · cs.AI · cs.CL

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Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

e00c2555eee6724108049b3a25f1ac5aed4f6e2d57089c1f2183192d455c26fa

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arxiv: 2312.01037 · arxiv_version: 2312.01037v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2312.01037 · pith_short_12: 4AGCKVPO4ZZE · pith_short_16: 4AGCKVPO4ZZECCAE · pith_short_8: 4AGCKVPO

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4AGCKVPO4ZZECCAETM5CL4NMLL \
  | 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: e00c2555eee6724108049b3a25f1ac5aed4f6e2d57089c1f2183192d455c26fa

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    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2023-12-02T05:47:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ef924b98fa61e63f8754fc0fb2b38d4eda866019b9b326f96c48355f83a2342e"
  },
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