Pith Number

pith:BJNSKZ2X

pith:2026:BJNSKZ2X5TVOMXWU3VBEUQBYCP

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Factual Retrieval in LLMs Is a Redundant, Distributed and Non-Contiguous Process

Hail Hochman, Natalie Shapira, Yoav Goldberg

arxiv:2606.21345 v1 · 2026-06-19 · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BJNSKZ2X5TVOMXWU3VBEUQBYCP}

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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	2026-06-23T01:12:38.007685Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0a5b256757eceae65ed4dd424a403813fd874354974f4168b6f962f779c9322f

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.21345 · arxiv_version: 2606.21345v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.21345 · pith_short_12: BJNSKZ2X5TVO · pith_short_16: BJNSKZ2X5TVOMXWU · pith_short_8: BJNSKZ2X

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/BJNSKZ2X5TVOMXWU3VBEUQBYCP \
  | 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: 0a5b256757eceae65ed4dd424a403813fd874354974f4168b6f962f779c9322f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c1fca76ac71eb5d0ac5ed3e21e9927d6be9b10bf40f6280210ade0bb9f47c5f9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-19T11:42:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4ac649a4f5be1422432f1fac83df87ff3cee421a0f1c759c99c0d3cf97122e09"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.21345",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}