Pith Number

pith:KRJX5ZU4

pith:2026:KRJX5ZU4LRKMECHKPGPL6VPUAY

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A Mechanistic Lens on Semantic Conflicts: Using Activation Patching to Understand LLM Behavior

Anna-Maria Maurer, Marvin Wyrich, Norman Peitek, Sven Apel, Youssef Abdelsalam

arxiv:2607.05587 v1 · 2026-07-06 · cs.SE

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\pithnumber{KRJX5ZU4LRKMECHKPGPL6VPUAY}

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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	2026-07-08T01:18:37.994076Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

54537ee69c5c54c208ea799ebf55f4061ec5ac71791540fcb874e08fdce883c7

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.05587 · arxiv_version: 2607.05587v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.05587 · pith_short_12: KRJX5ZU4LRKM · pith_short_16: KRJX5ZU4LRKMECHK · pith_short_8: KRJX5ZU4

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/KRJX5ZU4LRKMECHKPGPL6VPUAY \
  | 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: 54537ee69c5c54c208ea799ebf55f4061ec5ac71791540fcb874e08fdce883c7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c7b2185db2ab5818db807e1aeec29b90da30a7f15a34b2b18b54df5a2da4375e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-06T19:35:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "676ed9826e8a2f7867748c84dc9a8c9aa674ba0c830029b70e395875707d78a3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.05587",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}