Pith Number

pith:I3HZOQBF

pith:2026:I3HZOQBFHSYSEH2ZLT33RA2JDL

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Beyond the Commitment Boundary: Probing Epiphenomenal Chain-of-Thought in Large Reasoning Models

Daniel Scalena, Elisabetta Fersini, Gabriele Sarti, Luca Bortolussi, Malvina Nissim, Sara Candussio

arxiv:2606.13603 v1 · 2026-06-11 · cs.LG · cs.AI · cs.CL

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First computed	2026-06-12T01:10:12.581374Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

46cf9740253cb1221f595cf7b883491ad0cb8f3e7eb9795fb119b7cc776afe83

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.13603 · arxiv_version: 2606.13603v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.13603 · pith_short_12: I3HZOQBFHSYS · pith_short_16: I3HZOQBFHSYSEH2Z · pith_short_8: I3HZOQBF

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/I3HZOQBFHSYSEH2ZLT33RA2JDL \
  | 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: 46cf9740253cb1221f595cf7b883491ad0cb8f3e7eb9795fb119b7cc776afe83

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-11T17:21:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "73a36711d37a85546df99b5371371af9a9af49d0d05aea33b8280045ca942ac8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.13603",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}