Pith Number

pith:KMZESVYA

pith:2026:KMZESVYAAJZ56SCLGFNCHIILDV

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From `May' to `Is': Certainty Distortion in Language Model Rewriting

Catarina G Belem, Hongyu Yao, Mark Steyvers, Padhraic Smyth, Sameer Singh, Shang Wu

arxiv:2606.07951 v1 · 2026-06-06 · cs.CL · cs.AI · cs.LG

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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.

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First computed	2026-06-09T01:04:56.247607Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

53324957000273df484b315a23a10b1d780e7cb11286cdf7cd6fe11e83f00536

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.07951 · arxiv_version: 2606.07951v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.07951 · pith_short_12: KMZESVYAAJZ5 · pith_short_16: KMZESVYAAJZ56SCL · pith_short_8: KMZESVYA

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/KMZESVYAAJZ56SCLGFNCHIILDV \
  | 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: 53324957000273df484b315a23a10b1d780e7cb11286cdf7cd6fe11e83f00536

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "435ee087a3c03d52e30c96b7508221fd6860ef71ee2127c010dd9151b723f028",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-06T02:53:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4d77f043b29da00a1dd405785adf2583dff9f0c11f6bfcd6abd57b8e2161b585"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.07951",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}