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pith:HOOVOIPG

pith:2025:HOOVOIPGI4CPSX6VRPGPJBPIFU

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On the Fundamental Impossibility of Hallucination Control in Large Language Models

Micha{\l} P. Karpowicz

arxiv:2506.06382 v8 · 2025-06-04 · stat.ML · cs.AI · cs.CL · cs.GT · cs.LG

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First computed	2026-08-03T01:25:37.618786Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

3b9d5721e64704f95fd58bccf485e82d3551ecffdd43b40f504df4bbcbb70cf6

Aliases

arxiv: 2506.06382 · arxiv_version: 2506.06382v8 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.06382 · pith_short_12: HOOVOIPGI4CP · pith_short_16: HOOVOIPGI4CPSX6V · pith_short_8: HOOVOIPG

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/HOOVOIPGI4CPSX6VRPGPJBPIFU \
  | 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: 3b9d5721e64704f95fd58bccf485e82d3551ecffdd43b40f504df4bbcbb70cf6

Canonical record JSON

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      "cs.GT",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2025-06-04T23:28:39Z",
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