Pith Number

pith:CZQYCG2B

pith:2026:CZQYCG2BLIVJNB6G6KD6HINT3P

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What We Observe as LLM Behavior Can Be a Side-effect of Inference Backend

Markus Schedl, Monorama Swain, Passant Shafaei, Shahed Masoudian

arxiv:2608.04714 v1 · 2026-08-05 · cs.SE · cs.AI · cs.LG

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\pithnumber{CZQYCG2BLIVJNB6G6KD6HINT3P}

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First computed	2026-08-06T01:46:33.879653Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1661811b415a2a9687c6f287e3a1b3dbd7bfbd81903f814b17f8f3845d9e34a6

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.04714 · arxiv_version: 2608.04714v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.04714 · pith_short_12: CZQYCG2BLIVJ · pith_short_16: CZQYCG2BLIVJNB6G · pith_short_8: CZQYCG2B

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/CZQYCG2BLIVJNB6G6KD6HINT3P \
  | 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: 1661811b415a2a9687c6f287e3a1b3dbd7bfbd81903f814b17f8f3845d9e34a6

Canonical record JSON

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    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5c0ee2305a834ff5ae0bddf217ca3ec83d675e306a5d863325746df3f315bf33",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-05T11:28:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2d49e9ea2b6aa286013e95de10ba7657e974f68ec96f97faafda1ad44015c430"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}