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pith:S33Y7MIX

pith:2026:S33Y7MIX3PBVGVVQ5NVSIBKEDP

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Mechanistic Evidence for Faithfulness Decay in Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

Donald Ye, Jonas Rohweder, Linus Wong, Max Loffgren, Om Kotadia

arxiv:2602.11201 v2 · 2026-02-04 · cs.CL

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First computed	2026-06-08T01:05:07.411429Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

96f78fb117dbc35356b0eb6b2405441bcd68f0b6d29ceb73a9b18f10775bfea1

Aliases

arxiv: 2602.11201 · arxiv_version: 2602.11201v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2602.11201 · pith_short_12: S33Y7MIX3PBV · pith_short_16: S33Y7MIX3PBVGVVQ · pith_short_8: S33Y7MIX

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/S33Y7MIX3PBVGVVQ5NVSIBKEDP \
  | 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: 96f78fb117dbc35356b0eb6b2405441bcd68f0b6d29ceb73a9b18f10775bfea1

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-02-04T21:55:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b17ed728afbee12db9a71a2092962dda67c02e08dc1700228fabc026f6ccb60e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2602.11201",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}