Pith Number

pith:53CYMBYM

pith:2026:53CYMBYMIBHIBI26UDAIDZGT4T

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Don't Let Me Ask for It: LLMs Show Deficiencies in Active Multi-Turn Information Acquisition for Abductive Inference

Chalamalasetti Kranti, David Schlangen, Shahrukh Mohiuddin, Sherzod Hakimov

arxiv:2608.03388 v1 · 2026-08-04 · cs.CL

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\pithnumber{53CYMBYMIBHIBI26UDAIDZGT4T}

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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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First computed	2026-08-05T01:35:39.618723Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

eec586070c404e80a35ea0c081e4d3e4dafc3fdc9d8fcf29565cd6aaddd5c4ed

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.03388 · arxiv_version: 2608.03388v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.03388 · pith_short_12: 53CYMBYMIBHI · pith_short_16: 53CYMBYMIBHIBI26 · pith_short_8: 53CYMBYM

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/53CYMBYMIBHIBI26UDAIDZGT4T \
  | 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: eec586070c404e80a35ea0c081e4d3e4dafc3fdc9d8fcf29565cd6aaddd5c4ed

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "596f750557a83e1c74570c007ba607056f40d96ba615964e249f5b3762fdd714",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-04T09:39:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2ad80ffca7aa704d74eced786e669cfa3b3d7260cf1d5ae48b0f6cdcc806dca4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.03388",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}