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pith:LISOT6PE

pith:2025:LISOT6PENT6WFRA5B3EDI6TQAC

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How Overconfidence in Initial Choices and Underconfidence Under Criticism Modulate Change of Mind in Large Language Models

Andrea Banino, Benedetto De Martino, Dharshan Kumaran, Joe Heyward, Larisa Markeeva, Mrinal Mathur, Petar Velickovic, Razvan Pascanu, Simon Osindero, Stephen M Fleming, Viorica Patraucean

arxiv:2507.03120 v1 · 2025-07-03 · cs.LG · cs.AI

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:31:52.874134Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

5a24e9f9e46cfd62c41d0ec8347a7000be63b3ba79e3c81a48c98f857f8c1e3e

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arxiv: 2507.03120 · arxiv_version: 2507.03120v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2507.03120 · pith_short_12: LISOT6PENT6W · pith_short_16: LISOT6PENT6WFRA5 · pith_short_8: LISOT6PE

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LISOT6PENT6WFRA5B3EDI6TQAC \
  | 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: 5a24e9f9e46cfd62c41d0ec8347a7000be63b3ba79e3c81a48c98f857f8c1e3e

Canonical record JSON

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      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2025-07-03T18:57:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5a2bf978729821560e7cbe87656e956c5703be1760b2de4813c727327b766385"
  },
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  }
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