Pith Number

pith:6VHLJ2KP

pith:2026:6VHLJ2KPR2XGTCQVXPYAKW723H

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Sycophantic Praise: Evaluating Excessive Praise in Language Models

Daniel Vennemeyer, Meryl Ye, Phan Anh Duong, Ruihong Huang, Tianyu Jiang

arxiv:2606.07441 v1 · 2026-06-05 · cs.CL

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First computed	2026-06-08T01:05:27.288416Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f54eb4e94f8eae698a15bbf0055bfad9c43821f60f8bd21a36181937e999546f

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.07441 · arxiv_version: 2606.07441v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.07441 · pith_short_12: 6VHLJ2KPR2XG · pith_short_16: 6VHLJ2KPR2XGTCQV · pith_short_8: 6VHLJ2KP

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6VHLJ2KPR2XGTCQVXPYAKW723H \
  | 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: f54eb4e94f8eae698a15bbf0055bfad9c43821f60f8bd21a36181937e999546f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "12c037db26fcd7cc9c8d18bbb655e8a73b9f3418922a435b7493145926378bd3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-05T16:38:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cce0cedfc0766e9037addff63beeac176bb31c0dfba726d7744bf53572560d55"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.07441",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}