Pith Number

pith:E3UU2UKJ

pith:2026:E3UU2UKJ4KQDC6HNCIVCAAKQ4B

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Humans Disengage, Reasoning Models Persist: Separating Difficulty Registration from Deliberation Allocation

Han-yu Wang

arxiv:2606.26502 v1 · 2026-06-25 · cs.AI · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{E3UU2UKJ4KQDC6HNCIVCAAKQ4B}

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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	2026-06-26T01:15:32.908033Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

26e94d5149e2a03178ed122a200150e055d09b4f1565f5610f970e14dc70df7a

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.26502 · arxiv_version: 2606.26502v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.26502 · pith_short_12: E3UU2UKJ4KQD · pith_short_16: E3UU2UKJ4KQDC6HN · pith_short_8: E3UU2UKJ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/E3UU2UKJ4KQDC6HNCIVCAAKQ4B \
  | 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: 26e94d5149e2a03178ed122a200150e055d09b4f1565f5610f970e14dc70df7a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "59912c259ccc3c02aa17e4678b9047154e5d447390c735fab96efdab0dbbe82a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-25T01:21:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0dbc9f015ffb53bf35cef07898238c7b4f1d93de4ba10733fe039a9f58540cf4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.26502",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}