Pith Number

pith:CPYSSEOT

pith:2024:CPYSSEOTEOUOM6F4FXPC47H6OI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Refusal in LLMs is an Affine Function

Adam Scherlis, Nora Belrose, Thomas Marshall

arxiv:2411.09003 v3 · 2024-11-13 · cs.LG · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CPYSSEOTEOUOM6F4FXPC47H6OI}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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.

Cited by

6 papers in Pith

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RefusalGuard: Geometry-Preserving Fine-Tuning for Safety in LLMs

Less is More: Geometric Unlearning for LLMs with Minimal Data Disclosure

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T10:06:09.091491Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

13f12911d323a8e678bc2dde2e7cfe7203aa40c3d76228ac53f7bac11b6d5381

Aliases

arxiv: 2411.09003 · arxiv_version: 2411.09003v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2411.09003 · pith_short_12: CPYSSEOTEOUO · pith_short_16: CPYSSEOTEOUOM6F4 · pith_short_8: CPYSSEOT

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/CPYSSEOTEOUOM6F4FXPC47H6OI \
  | 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: 13f12911d323a8e678bc2dde2e7cfe7203aa40c3d76228ac53f7bac11b6d5381

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "29eca4d848c1109b0b4d234d46ec1b153980fcc869ead1203fbb6ee401feb9f6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2024-11-13T20:12:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6407d110e8c0f67977aca5c6a4fa7cb958a04e189615764570692396caba0add"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2411.09003",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}