Pith Number

pith:AV47J5CX

pith:2026:AV47J5CXOBIDSRNO6VMIVAAKXY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Reflection or Re-Generation? Why LLM Revision Fails Where Human Revision Succeeds

Gerald Friedland, Luyang Kong, Madhusudhanan Chandrasekaran, Yefan Tao

arxiv:2607.28908 v1 · 2026-07-31 · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AV47J5CXOBIDSRNO6VMIVAAKXY}

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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	2026-08-03T01:17:28.765628Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0579f4f45770503945aef5588a800abe3df88a7555b47eb8b1e010072bc78c8b

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.28908 · arxiv_version: 2607.28908v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.28908 · pith_short_12: AV47J5CXOBID · pith_short_16: AV47J5CXOBIDSRNO · pith_short_8: AV47J5CX

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/AV47J5CXOBIDSRNO6VMIVAAKXY \
  | 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: 0579f4f45770503945aef5588a800abe3df88a7555b47eb8b1e010072bc78c8b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "00f50e9f38bbd83c874202684f326fd863c2a15ed3fb7a90fddede08a2c4e45d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-31T00:15:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "10f27b3bb457f5ef85d0170c846fbb652c71e36810d7f2acd144295ab73eb89b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.28908",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}