Pith Number

pith:5BPXGGNB

pith:2026:5BPXGGNB4ZRGLACOBJVMZENMMZ

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A Few Neurons Reveal When LLMs Misuse Tools: Sparse Detection and Selective Steering for Reliable Tool Use

Chongwen Zhao, Kaizhu Huang, Ming Yin, Yutong Ke

arxiv:2608.00218 v1 · 2026-07-31 · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5BPXGGNB4ZRGLACOBJVMZENMMZ}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-08-04T00:34:25.663880Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e85f7319a1e66265804e0a6acc91ac6645cda8694c5c98797bc630572d5471db

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.00218 · arxiv_version: 2608.00218v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.00218 · pith_short_12: 5BPXGGNB4ZRG · pith_short_16: 5BPXGGNB4ZRGLACO · pith_short_8: 5BPXGGNB

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/5BPXGGNB4ZRGLACOBJVMZENMMZ \
  | 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: e85f7319a1e66265804e0a6acc91ac6645cda8694c5c98797bc630572d5471db

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8e88736e35b5c1a4f80867486c7d975a40dab9e027907c6f2fa249d4b6452bbe",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-31T19:03:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9985fb05c3adf0ec281c201fc60891132d9b34b83a7513940e562adeb9eab178"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.00218",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}