Pith Number

pith:BLOHP6G6

pith:2026:BLOHP6G6PY5AAYF5N2WQLZYFR2

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Do Language Models Know What Not to Say? Causal Evidence for Statistical Preemption in LLMs

Dongxin Guo, Jikun Wu, Siu Ming Yiu

arxiv:2605.23039 v1 · 2026-05-21 · cs.CL · cs.AI · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BLOHP6G6PY5AAYF5N2WQLZYFR2}

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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	2026-05-25T02:01:35.788628Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0adc77f8de7e3a0060bd6ead05e7058eb9d4ec0d0c8bfb49af61bf683b166bc3

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.23039 · arxiv_version: 2605.23039v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.23039 · pith_short_12: BLOHP6G6PY5A · pith_short_16: BLOHP6G6PY5AAYF5 · pith_short_8: BLOHP6G6

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BLOHP6G6PY5AAYF5N2WQLZYFR2 \
  | 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: 0adc77f8de7e3a0060bd6ead05e7058eb9d4ec0d0c8bfb49af61bf683b166bc3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4e3ba1194b1943fe2e21a42a1aace871ff645aaa4b4aa7a800680c86fb65407b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-21T21:06:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0b53ef71af2969b0defe742f435e5550325d0e79d36061c17bfa6268e926b524"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.23039",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}