Pith Number

pith:4QR5K3MF

pith:2026:4QR5K3MFXN34BQYFRPHCIBWME7

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The Ghost Couple: Correlated LLM Name Priors and Their Haunting of the Web and Academic Publishing

Micha{\l} Brzozowski, Neo Christopher Chung

arxiv:2606.02184 v1 · 2026-06-01 · cs.DL · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4QR5K3MFXN34BQYFRPHCIBWME7}

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4 Citations open

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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	2026-06-02T03:04:52.615716Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e423d56d85bb77c0c3058bce2406cc27f157c6565eea79e0341a982f1fcd2a0a

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.02184 · arxiv_version: 2606.02184v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.02184 · pith_short_12: 4QR5K3MFXN34 · pith_short_16: 4QR5K3MFXN34BQYF · pith_short_8: 4QR5K3MF

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4QR5K3MFXN34BQYFRPHCIBWME7 \
  | 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: e423d56d85bb77c0c3058bce2406cc27f157c6565eea79e0341a982f1fcd2a0a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4cd83c42e5cae66d434838ffd141521ee292737c59c79842bf9f4c0d357ad96a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-01T12:38:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a56bf5d75f968a444cb90985714414174e34cc04eb22058052e6857f88fc854e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.02184",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}