Pith Number

pith:RGVJNEWK

pith:2026:RGVJNEWKGXW2TL6RH2TANPKE5D

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The Contagion Tensor: A Framework for Measuring Output-Distribution Coupling in Multi-Agent LLM Systems -- and Auditing the Claims It Enables

Zewen Liu

arxiv:2606.28839 v1 · 2026-06-27 · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RGVJNEWKGXW2TL6RH2TANPKE5D}

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First computed	2026-06-30T01:16:53.963048Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

89aa9692ca35eda9afd13ea606bd44e8e706eb36a636c2a27fa5a841852cdd46

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.28839 · arxiv_version: 2606.28839v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.28839 · pith_short_12: RGVJNEWKGXW2 · pith_short_16: RGVJNEWKGXW2TL6R · pith_short_8: RGVJNEWK

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RGVJNEWKGXW2TL6RH2TANPKE5D \
  | 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: 89aa9692ca35eda9afd13ea606bd44e8e706eb36a636c2a27fa5a841852cdd46

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-27T09:51:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f865e5f15c096888818e4f3f52f9cd0d6529c72a9ca7acea2a2a25c505ab7300"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.28839",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}