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pith:IH2U7APV

pith:2024:IH2U7APV77D6IENZUMDE3BITAA

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Peering into the Mind of Language Models: An Approach for Attribution in Contextual Question Answering

Anirudh Phukan, Apoorv Saxena, Balaji Vasan Srinivasan, Koustava Goswami, Shwetha Somasundaram

arxiv:2405.17980 v1 · 2024-05-28 · cs.CL

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First computed	2026-07-05T08:24:14.097193Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

41f54f81f5ffc7e411b9a3064d8513001bc0b0a4220b25a08f5dca71344975c2

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arxiv: 2405.17980 · arxiv_version: 2405.17980v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2405.17980 · pith_short_12: IH2U7APV77D6 · pith_short_16: IH2U7APV77D6IENZ · pith_short_8: IH2U7APV

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/IH2U7APV77D6IENZUMDE3BITAA \
  | 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: 41f54f81f5ffc7e411b9a3064d8513001bc0b0a4220b25a08f5dca71344975c2

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2024-05-28T09:12:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0777e1227315e0cd3416ca1a6a151f98c88b791fa4f46a061cb98fa60a6c8bac"
  },
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  "source": {
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  }
}