Pith Number

pith:MZFUZAAV

pith:2025:MZFUZAAV5IVIV7SUH4UHX7QCCD

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Verify when Uncertain: Beyond Self-Consistency in Black Box Hallucination Detection

Baharan Mirzasoleiman, Kristjan Greenewald, Yihao Xue, Youssef Mroueh

arxiv:2502.15845 v2 · 2025-02-20 · cs.CL · cs.AI

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First computed	2026-07-01T00:17:07.913000Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

664b4c8015ea2a8afe543f287bfe0210e1df91129bf0412ee0063468f85c2139

Aliases

arxiv: 2502.15845 · arxiv_version: 2502.15845v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2502.15845 · pith_short_12: MZFUZAAV5IVI · pith_short_16: MZFUZAAV5IVIV7SU · pith_short_8: MZFUZAAV

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MZFUZAAV5IVIV7SUH4UHX7QCCD \
  | 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: 664b4c8015ea2a8afe543f287bfe0210e1df91129bf0412ee0063468f85c2139

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "048c56b92caffca42f4998f13b3a17f3f2196cad32098bdeaba5cff46d055fab",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2025-02-20T21:06:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0d974ee802519e0f93832ac232cfc9c44ab0e00c531ccc0b7da4d3f9c8ab69b2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2502.15845",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}