Pith Number

pith:Q3VOAIE4

pith:2026:Q3VOAIE4R2YPYPYTST2226TUCN

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Where Steering Signals Come From: Activation Source Selection in Activation Steering

Chenpeng Wang, Jiaran Ye, Juanzi Li, Lei Hou, Liangming Pan, Lingxu Ran, Yong Jiang, Zijun Yao

arxiv:2607.25270 v1 · 2026-07-28 · cs.CL · cs.AI · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Q3VOAIE4R2YPYPYTST2226TUCN}

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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	2026-07-29T00:25:12.019463Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

86eae0209c8eb0fc3f1394f5ad7a7413633d696865bec3f128f59ea6f6029177

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.25270 · arxiv_version: 2607.25270v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.25270 · pith_short_12: Q3VOAIE4R2YP · pith_short_16: Q3VOAIE4R2YPYPYT · pith_short_8: Q3VOAIE4

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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/Q3VOAIE4R2YPYPYTST2226TUCN \
  | 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: 86eae0209c8eb0fc3f1394f5ad7a7413633d696865bec3f128f59ea6f6029177

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c5d843f2a6cfd852e2c07e4d13e381ad0fe9250331bf335183855c54e08c1f2e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-28T04:18:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3236a957673ab92070ff1b239b6d50882763a6a9f6481c5c92c262faa3385d1d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.25270",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}