Pith Number

pith:KNULEB4U

pith:2026:KNULEB4U7CAYPWYCV6FBFRU3JT

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Hidden Language Consistency Phenomena in Reasoning LLMs

Kelly Marchisio, Muhammad Ali Shafique

arxiv:2608.08447 v1 · 2026-08-09 · cs.CL · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KNULEB4U7CAYPWYCV6FBFRU3JT}

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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	2026-08-11T01:22:39.454238Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5368b20794f88187db02af8a12c69b4cf1eba86f96e8e69e5a4054d7150792c2

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.08447 · arxiv_version: 2608.08447v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.08447 · pith_short_12: KNULEB4U7CAY · pith_short_16: KNULEB4U7CAYPWYC · pith_short_8: KNULEB4U

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/KNULEB4U7CAYPWYCV6FBFRU3JT \
  | 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: 5368b20794f88187db02af8a12c69b4cf1eba86f96e8e69e5a4054d7150792c2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d2d55f8ed5c6ae792cb0a6004facf859fc549cacd96e9619bbb907e76e9e2526",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-09T03:30:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "801622d8e0545d17d1b96d7e836e52d2c9628dfd25449b19ab6bbba99890fc84"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.08447",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}