Pith Number

pith:MFLLYBSX

pith:2026:MFLLYBSXVM4Y76L52GMYQVJA56

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Reasoning or Memorization: Can LLMs Understand and Generate Chinese Xiehouyu Riddles?

Chongtian Shao, Hai Hu, Kejia Zhang, Siyuan Song, Tianjian Zhu, Xiaojing Zhao

arxiv:2607.23440 v1 · 2026-07-26 · cs.CL · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MFLLYBSXVM4Y76L52GMYQVJA56}

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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	2026-07-28T01:22:52.976102Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6156bc0657ab398ff97dd199885520ef9d2d3bc568560426f966fc3535c13fd7

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.23440 · arxiv_version: 2607.23440v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.23440 · pith_short_12: MFLLYBSXVM4Y · pith_short_16: MFLLYBSXVM4Y76L5 · pith_short_8: MFLLYBSX

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MFLLYBSXVM4Y76L52GMYQVJA56 \
  | 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: 6156bc0657ab398ff97dd199885520ef9d2d3bc568560426f966fc3535c13fd7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4ef7bd8f9a01d97b12b508414ec8daf1304aca4da8e59786f0497985406f9373",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-26T03:39:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "361bbed896fa6e5f08094f904689718da730e806cd3ea196ea74c638e9b96b75"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.23440",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}