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pith:RT5K7LJU

pith:2025:RT5K7LJUD4E55U7EWYBVZZG7LX

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When Chain of Thought is Necessary, Language Models Struggle to Evade Monitors

David K. Elson, Erik Jenner, Heng Chen, Irhum Shafkat, Rif A. Saurous, Rohin Shah, Scott Emmons, Senthooran Rajamanoharan

arxiv:2507.05246 v1 · 2025-07-07 · cs.AI · cs.CL

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:33:11.159942Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8cfaafad341f09ded3e4b6035ce4df5dff26cf112a98520a805b320005f67594

Aliases

arxiv: 2507.05246 · arxiv_version: 2507.05246v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2507.05246 · pith_short_12: RT5K7LJUD4E5 · pith_short_16: RT5K7LJUD4E55U7E · pith_short_8: RT5K7LJU

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RT5K7LJUD4E55U7EWYBVZZG7LX \
  | 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: 8cfaafad341f09ded3e4b6035ce4df5dff26cf112a98520a805b320005f67594

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2025-07-07T17:54:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b6806490fe0c35aa37417f80ed35b11733dd28015f9490215a3f471a7bebc160"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2507.05246",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}