Pith Number

pith:LIAU272T

pith:2026:LIAU272TO3CYDO6FPDTRJ3OBJX

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Explanatory Engagement Under Rare Anomalous Failure: Asymptotic Rarity in Model Behavior (or: The Asymptotic AI)

Sam Mao

arxiv:2608.13063 v1 · 2026-08-13 · cs.AI · cs.CL · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LIAU272TO3CYDO6FPDTRJ3OBJX}

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First computed	2026-08-14T01:00:15.280959Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5a014d7f5376c581bbc578e714edc14dd37a72dc71dd8d28db46f4a47f160402

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.13063 · arxiv_version: 2608.13063v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.13063 · pith_short_12: LIAU272TO3CY · pith_short_16: LIAU272TO3CYDO6F · pith_short_8: LIAU272T

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LIAU272TO3CYDO6FPDTRJ3OBJX \
  | 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: 5a014d7f5376c581bbc578e714edc14dd37a72dc71dd8d28db46f4a47f160402

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ca522be90fd09e3ad8b7a5254a15929a2dabff4b507122685185b2951220ba02",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-13T10:25:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "74abe3074e59debaee178d97799cfc753784108b1889de7b6a014aa5b0c8a657"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.13063",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}