Pith Number

pith:MLSZ63LG

pith:2025:MLSZ63LGERC6IMSMGSZBNQH4C2

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On the Limitations of Steering in Language Model Alignment

Chebrolu Niranjan, Gerard Christopher Yeo, Kokil Jaidka

arxiv:2505.01162 v1 · 2025-05-02 · cs.CL · cs.AI

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\pithnumber{MLSZ63LGERC6IMSMGSZBNQH4C2}

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First computed	2026-07-05T10:57:46.429744Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

62e59f6d662445e4324c34b216c0fc169ae97e0a523f3d315576cacf95b8b4c7

Aliases

arxiv: 2505.01162 · arxiv_version: 2505.01162v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.01162 · pith_short_12: MLSZ63LGERC6 · pith_short_16: MLSZ63LGERC6IMSM · pith_short_8: MLSZ63LG

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MLSZ63LGERC6IMSMGSZBNQH4C2 \
  | 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: 62e59f6d662445e4324c34b216c0fc169ae97e0a523f3d315576cacf95b8b4c7

Canonical record JSON

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    "abstract_canon_sha256": "166d6ed2b8aa043d041d14c943e611aba76ed70340d18ec5d45fdb6e586d548d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2025-05-02T10:08:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1057d95b0a43a1131171ac70cc8c593bf598c35f59e7a3f049ac6626725bdae3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2505.01162",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}