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pith:2025:BQJN2YQA5JGBBCJLO5F67GA7MF

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Sycophancy under Pressure: Evaluating and Mitigating Sycophantic Bias via Adversarial Dialogues in Scientific QA

Chunyi Li, Dandan Zhu, Guangtao Zhai, Kaiwei Zhang, Qi Jia, Wei Sun, Xiangyang Zhu, Zijian Chen

arxiv:2508.13743 v1 · 2025-08-19 · cs.CL

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:56:06.996803Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
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0c12dd6200ea4c10892b774bef981f616df410a6ed090936d0d31b583c7a00ee

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arxiv: 2508.13743 · arxiv_version: 2508.13743v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2508.13743 · pith_short_12: BQJN2YQA5JGB · pith_short_16: BQJN2YQA5JGBBCJL · pith_short_8: BQJN2YQA

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BQJN2YQA5JGBBCJLO5F67GA7MF \
  | 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: 0c12dd6200ea4c10892b774bef981f616df410a6ed090936d0d31b583c7a00ee

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