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pith:2025:P5LKYUFP32GQGNDM4EGVOIMPSG

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LLMs Don't Know Their Own Decision Boundaries: The Unreliability of Self-Generated Counterfactual Explanations

Adam Mahdi, Andrew M. Bean, Chris Russell, Eoin Delaney, Harry Mayne, Ryan Othniel Kearns, Yushi Yang

arxiv:2509.09396 v1 · 2025-09-11 · cs.LG · cs.AI · cs.CL

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Decision Potential Surface: A Theoretical and Practical Approximation of Large Language Model Decision Boundary

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First computed	2026-07-05T12:09:35.419429Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

7f56ac50afde8d03346ce10d57218f9188ac9bd057e502492d0ea271e1796cb1

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arxiv: 2509.09396 · arxiv_version: 2509.09396v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2509.09396 · pith_short_12: P5LKYUFP32GQ · pith_short_16: P5LKYUFP32GQGNDM · pith_short_8: P5LKYUFP

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/P5LKYUFP32GQGNDM4EGVOIMPSG \
  | 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: 7f56ac50afde8d03346ce10d57218f9188ac9bd057e502492d0ea271e1796cb1

Canonical record JSON

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    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2025-09-11T12:25:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "82f7fb2c530dd0d29bc0f81f0933ff2039d4094084a101358f0a60b029822fee"
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}