Pith Number

pith:FSBWGUE7

pith:2025:FSBWGUE7ONAFX72WO4Q43GDUBE

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Potemkin Understanding in Large Language Models

Bec Weeks, Keyon Vafa, Marina Mancoridis, Sendhil Mullainathan

arxiv:2506.21521 v2 · 2025-06-26 · cs.CL · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FSBWGUE7ONAFX72WO4Q43GDUBE}

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:29:14.464122Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2c8363509f73405bff567721cd9874093cc0071f6cb0189dbe0384c2d6657c7e

Aliases

arxiv: 2506.21521 · arxiv_version: 2506.21521v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.21521 · pith_short_12: FSBWGUE7ONAF · pith_short_16: FSBWGUE7ONAFX72W · pith_short_8: FSBWGUE7

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/FSBWGUE7ONAFX72WO4Q43GDUBE \
  | 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: 2c8363509f73405bff567721cd9874093cc0071f6cb0189dbe0384c2d6657c7e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "398d59fb230b3dde5b8609d073d28e9134a69c0f6dc57fe9ef106cb5bd1be905",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2025-06-26T17:41:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "906bb2423398070156cf4941268533f0733b2617925559f43a739efad3f6fb5f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2506.21521",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}