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pith:6BMKK4RB

pith:2026:6BMKK4RBWPEZI7N45EEG7LEC4S

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Understanding Why Language Models Hallucinate: Testing Reasoning Against Priors

Haoyue Bai, Jiawei Zhang, Robert Nowak, Shashank Muralidhar Bharadwaj, Siyang Cao, Xi Ding, Xuhan Tong, Yangfan Hu

arxiv:2607.00447 v1 · 2026-07-01 · cs.CL

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First computed	2026-07-02T01:17:43.634154Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f058a57221b3c9947dbce9086fac82e4b8023d1e89a4f68aaf0a5f2f1788f8b7

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.00447 · arxiv_version: 2607.00447v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.00447 · pith_short_12: 6BMKK4RBWPEZ · pith_short_16: 6BMKK4RBWPEZI7N4 · pith_short_8: 6BMKK4RB

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6BMKK4RBWPEZI7N45EEG7LEC4S \
  | 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: f058a57221b3c9947dbce9086fac82e4b8023d1e89a4f68aaf0a5f2f1788f8b7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "03a19497d5b4fe8a707eb9b42d2d6f453ad3295b744a9f83de9c79a63f9492ca",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-01T05:02:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6bdc86c7fac56076cc8996fb0e6cb14fc161f5b8f54f9b8b2cfcd5f1da16af20"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.00447",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}