Pith Number

pith:HV6C3FA3

pith:2025:HV6C3FA3XTMRLJV3DDZWDX7PDQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Answer-Centric or Reasoning-Driven? Uncovering the Latent Memory Anchor in LLMs

Jian Cheng, Ning Xu, Yang Wu, Yifan Zhang, Yiwei Wang, Yujun Cai, Yuran Wang, Yurong Wu

arxiv:2506.17630 v1 · 2025-06-21 · cs.CL

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\pithnumber{HV6C3FA3XTMRLJV3DDZWDX7PDQ}

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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	2026-07-05T11:25:20.737873Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3d7c2d941bbcd915a6bb18f361dfef1c14f145dd238b6ef38a2d45a2ebe5d785

Aliases

arxiv: 2506.17630 · arxiv_version: 2506.17630v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.17630 · pith_short_12: HV6C3FA3XTMR · pith_short_16: HV6C3FA3XTMRLJV3 · pith_short_8: HV6C3FA3

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/HV6C3FA3XTMRLJV3DDZWDX7PDQ \
  | 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: 3d7c2d941bbcd915a6bb18f361dfef1c14f145dd238b6ef38a2d45a2ebe5d785

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "74146a51eaeed703f082d089b313383758c69e83df220437a427eb8f620a90a7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2025-06-21T08:15:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "32d514320ed5524a69b7711b85849a078c8e293a352671be8f8deb048303e910"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2506.17630",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}