Pith Number

pith:MTXJQLFY

pith:2026:MTXJQLFYKK52BCJPKBR6VLDI3M

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The Shape of Wisdom: Decision Trajectories in Language Models

Shailesh Rana

arxiv:2606.01202 v1 · 2026-05-31 · cs.AI · cs.CL · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MTXJQLFYKK52BCJPKBR6VLDI3M}

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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	2026-06-02T02:04:26.724395Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

64ee982cb852bba0892f5063eaac68db272060bccd0e6078c5c9117e0ff4121a

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.01202 · arxiv_version: 2606.01202v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.01202 · pith_short_12: MTXJQLFYKK52 · pith_short_16: MTXJQLFYKK52BCJP · pith_short_8: MTXJQLFY

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MTXJQLFYKK52BCJPKBR6VLDI3M \
  | 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: 64ee982cb852bba0892f5063eaac68db272060bccd0e6078c5c9117e0ff4121a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "012b75d2e3e6614655f1f96a12fb3929be70c40d15e3c483401183c56be39750",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-31T12:33:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9724f2a6a4ffe81e8fe92432870fb648cdae1a37acee690272d285107684b4e1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.01202",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}