Pith Number

pith:EC66UGND

pith:2026:EC66UGNDO2I645GQYOOGB7IB3J

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A False Average: Chain-of-Thought Monitors Collapse Where They Are the Only Defense

Leo Richter, Shikhar Shiromani

arxiv:2608.00583 v1 · 2026-08-01 · cs.CR · cs.AI · cs.CL · cs.LG

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EC66UGNDO2I645GQYOOGB7IB3J}

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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

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-08-04T00:37:35.120574Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

20bdea19a37691ee74d0c39c60fd01da7090d5836bf651a3410b92c6407d9040

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.00583 · arxiv_version: 2608.00583v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.00583 · pith_short_12: EC66UGNDO2I6 · pith_short_16: EC66UGNDO2I645GQ · pith_short_8: EC66UGND

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/EC66UGNDO2I645GQYOOGB7IB3J \
  | 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: 20bdea19a37691ee74d0c39c60fd01da7090d5836bf651a3410b92c6407d9040

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e654ad9f03cd30aae11fb7e58f2fc9cb24a47cba237709b75865d41f5c4b7d84",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.CL",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-01T10:42:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "67b8bb9b1dc0e07b25636dccb4f516e38860cba96d4c6e05a4c09af4b4e8aacb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.00583",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}