Pith Number

pith:4PPQOK5Y

pith:2025:4PPQOK5YJVO3TPWVGDUGBWAMXR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

How Many Instructions Can LLMs Follow at Once?

Brendan Whiting, Daniel Jaroslawicz, Karime Maamari, Parth Shah

arxiv:2507.11538 v1 · 2025-07-15 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4PPQOK5YJVO3TPWVGDUGBWAMXR}

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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.

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T11:37:40.597155Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e3df072bb84d5db9bed530e860d80cbc7c8e13565f3bfcd583dfdaba5f8050a7

Aliases

arxiv: 2507.11538 · arxiv_version: 2507.11538v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2507.11538 · pith_short_12: 4PPQOK5YJVO3 · pith_short_16: 4PPQOK5YJVO3TPWV · pith_short_8: 4PPQOK5Y

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/4PPQOK5YJVO3TPWVGDUGBWAMXR \
  | 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: e3df072bb84d5db9bed530e860d80cbc7c8e13565f3bfcd583dfdaba5f8050a7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "123f530d48b648a3e993925b5b1c416e803a0e44be24a4f8d4da8a9a51eb7f8f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2025-07-15T17:59:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "506547be22cc3c55f4f6ed7a9dce81b624a1663daef535fd0aabe54ed4e21aea"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2507.11538",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}