Pith Number

pith:7OQTG7DP

pith:2026:7OQTG7DPXQSRBMZERL4K4GVJX7

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The Geometry of Refusal: Linear Instability in Safety-Aligned LLMs

Kartikeya Vats, Shivam Ratnakar

arxiv:2606.22686 v1 · 2026-06-21 · cs.CR · cs.AI · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7OQTG7DPXQSRBMZERL4K4GVJX7}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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	2026-06-23T02:13:44.839436Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fba1337c6fbc2510b3248af8ae1aa9bfe33a57b659fa95fdc3cde87278179284

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.22686 · arxiv_version: 2606.22686v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.22686 · pith_short_12: 7OQTG7DPXQSR · pith_short_16: 7OQTG7DPXQSRBMZE · pith_short_8: 7OQTG7DP

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/7OQTG7DPXQSRBMZERL4K4GVJX7 \
  | 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: fba1337c6fbc2510b3248af8ae1aa9bfe33a57b659fa95fdc3cde87278179284

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "eb70e8c249054e0e25eb270eaf6ae6afeb3a96ee94eec5255168f09cf92bd275",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-21T22:04:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8eca48b23fa370f13a4aa30f7a39324f113e8163cc2e7ebddee3d527adf6569f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.22686",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}