Pith Number

pith:CO6OJDMS

pith:2026:CO6OJDMSENRZWDOZFD2B64JMKY

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Chain-of-thought obfuscation learned from output supervision can generalise to unseen tasks

Cameron Tice, Nathaniel Mitrani Hadida, Puria Radmard, Sassan Bhanji

arxiv:2601.23086 v2 · 2026-01-30 · cs.AI

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\pithnumber{CO6OJDMSENRZWDOZFD2B64JMKY}

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First computed	2026-05-21T01:05:15.171149Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

13bce48d9223639b0dd928f41f712c5629f56c9d4603f0fce804c3c2e32436f6

Aliases

arxiv: 2601.23086 · arxiv_version: 2601.23086v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2601.23086 · pith_short_12: CO6OJDMSENRZ · pith_short_16: CO6OJDMSENRZWDOZ · pith_short_8: CO6OJDMS

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/CO6OJDMSENRZWDOZFD2B64JMKY \
  | 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: 13bce48d9223639b0dd928f41f712c5629f56c9d4603f0fce804c3c2e32436f6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "913fb3408fec851b169b4e0df9ea435deeeeab31cbc63f785cbde2bdc6636c64",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-01-30T15:34:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a64d3cddbae481ed8e4652a6b4eb82e4b26eec2701b89a174553d00b3f9b278e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2601.23086",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}