Pith Number

pith:BD3J6CJS

pith:2025:BD3J6CJSPYL2XLHWFM7HOHLUIN

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The Non-Determinism of Small LLMs: Evidence of Low Answer Consistency in Repetition Trials of Standard Multiple-Choice Benchmarks

Cassia Sanctos, Claudio Pinhanez, Marcelo Grave, Paulo Cavalin, Yago Primerano

arxiv:2509.09705 v1 · 2025-09-05 · cs.CL · cs.AI

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First computed	2026-07-05T12:09:47.520465Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

08f69f09327e17abacf62b3e771d7443524ebe0e959646c7dac41c77166395f7

Aliases

arxiv: 2509.09705 · arxiv_version: 2509.09705v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2509.09705 · pith_short_12: BD3J6CJSPYL2 · pith_short_16: BD3J6CJSPYL2XLHW · pith_short_8: BD3J6CJS

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BD3J6CJSPYL2XLHWFM7HOHLUIN \
  | 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: 08f69f09327e17abacf62b3e771d7443524ebe0e959646c7dac41c77166395f7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8aa74818ce1e9483f44c886ee7050d63993f8812271d9ae8a5518c2b0c411011",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2025-09-05T17:31:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ecb77102ca30b700ca5cd3892fd774d990b8fa46a9a062ba717a22676a5fa18b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2509.09705",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}