Pith Number

pith:7B2IZJX4

pith:2026:7B2IZJX4YWO4VHOKFRQ6OAFOCL

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Self-Referential Induction Increases Response Instability Relative to Unresolvable and Verifiable Questions in Large Language Models

Paras Balani, Subhrakanta Panda

arxiv:2608.13258 v1 · 2026-08-13 · cs.CL · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7B2IZJX4YWO4VHOKFRQ6OAFOCL}

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First computed	2026-08-14T01:00:47.145324Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f8748ca6fcc59dca9dca2c61e700ae12dca03357cb584a5f39483a70dd0a8e33

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.13258 · arxiv_version: 2608.13258v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.13258 · pith_short_12: 7B2IZJX4YWO4 · pith_short_16: 7B2IZJX4YWO4VHOK · pith_short_8: 7B2IZJX4

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/7B2IZJX4YWO4VHOKFRQ6OAFOCL \
  | 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: f8748ca6fcc59dca9dca2c61e700ae12dca03357cb584a5f39483a70dd0a8e33

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "33f92a28184f38109b221ad2d930805d2f5cacb712f706d990e280d559a80903",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-13T13:58:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "dc2357d1d072c84344df8b3786353661cbb00419f41fbb751d118686c288f0e7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.13258",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}