Pith Number

pith:BJH4GYKI

pith:2026:BJH4GYKILODCCATMW2OHGXSA4G

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The Calibration Floor: Format Repair Can Masquerade as Self-Correction at Small-to-Mid Scale

Bo Qu, Licheng Wang, Mingguang Chen

arxiv:2608.04355 v1 · 2026-08-05 · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BJH4GYKILODCCATMW2OHGXSA4G}

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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	2026-08-06T01:33:35.047211Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0a4fc361485b8621026cb69c735e40e1a96dd5e347f010fdc0322e4cdce11017

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.04355 · arxiv_version: 2608.04355v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.04355 · pith_short_12: BJH4GYKILODC · pith_short_16: BJH4GYKILODCCATM · pith_short_8: BJH4GYKI

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/BJH4GYKILODCCATMW2OHGXSA4G \
  | 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: 0a4fc361485b8621026cb69c735e40e1a96dd5e347f010fdc0322e4cdce11017

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bcd59d1670722a85d00516e6fff82551de99cd310d63d47bdbdfccd4b7cdd050",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-05T01:55:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "67bb7e2dc1a1c9b40f1894b1c3a6294f2c25443dfa36c1a7587a0513aa38a115"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.04355",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}