Pith Number

pith:P7GAEHEN

pith:2026:P7GAEHENFGHATVOXCTR7O5EI4Z

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Comparing Explanations is Not Enough, Explain the Change: New Standards are Needed to Explain Behavioral Shifts in Large Language Models

Fosca Giannotti, Francesco Giannini, Luca Pappalardo, Martino Ciaperoni, Marzio Di Vece, Roberto Pellungrini

arxiv:2602.02304 v2 · 2026-02-02 · cs.AI · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{P7GAEHENFGHATVOXCTR7O5EI4Z}

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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	2026-05-21T01:05:15.537374Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7fcc021c8d298e09d5d714e3f77488e643f589c82d54b4c0ad64cea404efcafe

Aliases

arxiv: 2602.02304 · arxiv_version: 2602.02304v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2602.02304 · pith_short_12: P7GAEHENFGHA · pith_short_16: P7GAEHENFGHATVOX · pith_short_8: P7GAEHEN

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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/P7GAEHENFGHATVOXCTR7O5EI4Z \
  | 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: 7fcc021c8d298e09d5d714e3f77488e643f589c82d54b4c0ad64cea404efcafe

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a0172cad6df8120c24ad825ea1fc81b3718b6cb733cb7f2aa2c9925a06cbec17",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-02-02T16:36:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8b563dc2282582e984f299ff679f424fe7fd280c04f7a18caa1c51923d8fdd28"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2602.02304",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}