Pith Number

pith:H3INTHIP

pith:2026:H3INTHIPUHEGNDNSG7G66J2I3F

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Breaking the Chain: A Causal Analysis of LLM Faithfulness to Intermediate Structures

Alexander Panchenko, Elena Tutubalina, Gleb Ershov, Karim Vafin, Mikhail Chaichuk, Mikhail Seleznyov, Oleg Somov

arxiv:2603.16475 v2 · 2026-03-17 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{H3INTHIPUHEGNDNSG7G66J2I3F}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-06-05T01:14:36.771679Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3ed0d99d0fa1c8668db237cdef2748d944b197f6af3b8ca2689dfa086e1b1ce9

Aliases

arxiv: 2603.16475 · arxiv_version: 2603.16475v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2603.16475 · pith_short_12: H3INTHIPUHEG · pith_short_16: H3INTHIPUHEGNDNS · pith_short_8: H3INTHIP

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/H3INTHIPUHEGNDNSG7G66J2I3F \
  | 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: 3ed0d99d0fa1c8668db237cdef2748d944b197f6af3b8ca2689dfa086e1b1ce9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "db248779c638cadcbed5678dd6945e2dbb33fe68e088f3bf8f601ddf082c4acd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-03-17T13:01:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9054e6690d0e3d1aa7320ce8ecc399e2456b12367b1700861f07280851f5e61e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2603.16475",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}