Pith Number

pith:PEUYWCAS

pith:2026:PEUYWCASHQ4TK7PKUP2B7NB2QN

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The Refusal Residue: When Probes Catch Alignment Faking and When They Don't

Aman Mehta

arxiv:2607.13346 v1 · 2026-07-15 · cs.CR · cs.AI · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PEUYWCASHQ4TK7PKUP2B7NB2QN}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-07-16T00:22:13.463973Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

79298b08123c39357deaa3f41fb43a8370953ec4ff8628951b81e77e6f7cfcac

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.13346 · arxiv_version: 2607.13346v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.13346 · pith_short_12: PEUYWCASHQ4T · pith_short_16: PEUYWCASHQ4TK7PK · pith_short_8: PEUYWCAS

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/PEUYWCASHQ4TK7PKUP2B7NB2QN \
  | 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: 79298b08123c39357deaa3f41fb43a8370953ec4ff8628951b81e77e6f7cfcac

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3a3b124c72524adf91a87d8fedc75054564b7cdc96af5e0f4225ab904c637f8f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-15T00:11:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bbfd2ab6969e5bdea3d3e5f3796da0318341ad0b86f76095088c109c927ab73a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.13346",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}