Pith Number

pith:GJWMKKG2

pith:2026:GJWMKKG2EX7W2LZXDZKHYSRGXM

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Lying Is Just a Phase: The Hidden Alignment Transition in Language Model Scaling

Adil Amin

arxiv:2605.18838 v1 · 2026-05-13 · cs.LG · cs.AI · cs.CL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GJWMKKG2EX7W2LZXDZKHYSRGXM}

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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	2026-05-20T00:06:25.163529Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

326cc528da25ff6d2f371e547c4a26bb0e0223bcd5120914b16603351b576c94

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.18838 · arxiv_version: 2605.18838v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.18838 · pith_short_12: GJWMKKG2EX7W · pith_short_16: GJWMKKG2EX7W2LZX · pith_short_8: GJWMKKG2

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/GJWMKKG2EX7W2LZXDZKHYSRGXM \
  | 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: 326cc528da25ff6d2f371e547c4a26bb0e0223bcd5120914b16603351b576c94

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0c23c544c9a2d419d484cd270014a9b1972518e012261857d9512857127352e4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-13T03:14:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "13d91dd5c632b037ef7cd0ecc86dca4c42f00f0b75153c48707a026c725666dc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.18838",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}