Pith Number

pith:7UFB5JHO

pith:2026:7UFB5JHOP6JYA3DCLOXZIKDJHC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Why LLMs Fail at Causal Discovery and How Interventional Agents Escape

Amartya Roy, Sonali Parbhoo

arxiv:2605.27567 v1 · 2026-05-26 · cs.AI · cs.CL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7UFB5JHOP6JYA3DCLOXZIKDJHC}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-28T01:04:16.129637Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fd0a1ea4ee7f93806c625baf942869389b8785530e349691826a707f0ee41295

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.27567 · arxiv_version: 2605.27567v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.27567 · pith_short_12: 7UFB5JHOP6JY · pith_short_16: 7UFB5JHOP6JYA3DC · pith_short_8: 7UFB5JHO

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/7UFB5JHOP6JYA3DCLOXZIKDJHC \
  | 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: fd0a1ea4ee7f93806c625baf942869389b8785530e349691826a707f0ee41295

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5d0adac4a76bb0e0d3b215f44062c33234506c1473f9749369c606b0dc62104e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-26T18:37:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "adbcfa13769869900eaef0cba4832537c0d9c4f073a79d46e358bc611325f584"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.27567",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}