Pith Number

pith:PZAOYUMX

pith:2026:PZAOYUMXP5GEZ442YIBQNKBBWE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

LLM Self-Recognition: Steering and Retrieving Activation Signatures

Gerhard Wunder, Jonas Sch\"afer, Thibaud Ardoin

arxiv:2606.06315 v1 · 2026-06-04 · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PZAOYUMXP5GEZ442YIBQNKBBWE}

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2 Internet Archive

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-06-05T01:15:41.696185Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7e40ec51977f4c4cf39ac20306a821b119e296ca51f850de8c5f044f369886e5

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.06315 · arxiv_version: 2606.06315v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.06315 · pith_short_12: PZAOYUMXP5GE · pith_short_16: PZAOYUMXP5GEZ442 · pith_short_8: PZAOYUMX

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/PZAOYUMXP5GEZ442YIBQNKBBWE \
  | 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: 7e40ec51977f4c4cf39ac20306a821b119e296ca51f850de8c5f044f369886e5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3ee7937e7a4835c1ac554be2a44d6da1430adb2d18e670773d338e4ba4fabf66",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-04T15:54:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "557a5270b228b00517f3d4e5fb938291f2f707102cd42bce2ebddb8cacfc6b48"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.06315",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}