Pith Number

pith:4QFVPSAO

pith:2026:4QFVPSAOVCWPHL6C3EW7A4AU6A

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Denoising Iterative Self-Correction: Structured Verification Loops for Reliable LLM Reasoning

David Ken, Joel Stremmel, Shen Yin

arxiv:2606.21724 v1 · 2026-06-19 · cs.CL · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4QFVPSAOVCWPHL6C3EW7A4AU6A}

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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	2026-06-23T01:13:20.768151Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e40b57c80ea8acf3afc2d92df07014f00bd5b841433952f9d8db4e66c11d55d2

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.21724 · arxiv_version: 2606.21724v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.21724 · pith_short_12: 4QFVPSAOVCWP · pith_short_16: 4QFVPSAOVCWPHL6C · pith_short_8: 4QFVPSAO

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/4QFVPSAOVCWPHL6C3EW7A4AU6A \
  | 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: e40b57c80ea8acf3afc2d92df07014f00bd5b841433952f9d8db4e66c11d55d2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "96e1d9247a0c1d727ea83962dc2db50ac04afcc8b4120d5cdb0cbc7f11913e03",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-19T20:23:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0e1307bec83ef633a5a1cf2d01d731a688b5047143c54d180d44e34b64345a00"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.21724",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}