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pith:FRVSB3SL

pith:2024:FRVSB3SLE7QE4JOSZSAX73U424

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Characterizing LLM Abstention Behavior in Science QA with Context Perturbations

Bill Howe, Bingbing Wen, Lucy Lu Wang

arxiv:2404.12452 v2 · 2024-04-18 · cs.CL

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First computed	2026-07-05T09:16:14.524926Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2c6b20ee4b27e04e25d2cc817fee9cd714a5c686629b4a0c85c69b05afb0824d

Aliases

arxiv: 2404.12452 · arxiv_version: 2404.12452v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2404.12452 · pith_short_12: FRVSB3SLE7QE · pith_short_16: FRVSB3SLE7QE4JOS · pith_short_8: FRVSB3SL

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/FRVSB3SLE7QE4JOSZSAX73U424 \
  | 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: 2c6b20ee4b27e04e25d2cc817fee9cd714a5c686629b4a0c85c69b05afb0824d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8fb2ff8e069610af03093c1ac8d843fa87406d7d91522b1b6d491371f40f1490",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2024-04-18T18:26:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8735366f025470933b1d6dfc22007aaa0cdaf86faaba6e7ab22a94a5b57e7bd7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2404.12452",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}