Pith Number

pith:SQIUYLWO

pith:2026:SQIUYLWOSDLXIBYE4TWTDOP5MO

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Thinking Like a Scientist? A Structural Study of LLM-Generated Research Methods

Andres Algaba, Brecht Verbeken, Francesca Carlon, Vincent Ginis

arxiv:2606.26130 v1 · 2026-06-15 · cs.CL · cs.AI · cs.DL

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\pithnumber{SQIUYLWOSDLXIBYE4TWTDOP5MO}

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First computed	2026-06-26T00:15:26.969011Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

94114c2ece90d7740704e4ed31b9fd63987d5330531255e75b6a5efd685fbae7

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.26130 · arxiv_version: 2606.26130v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.26130 · pith_short_12: SQIUYLWOSDLX · pith_short_16: SQIUYLWOSDLXIBYE · pith_short_8: SQIUYLWO

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/SQIUYLWOSDLXIBYE4TWTDOP5MO \
  | 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: 94114c2ece90d7740704e4ed31b9fd63987d5330531255e75b6a5efd685fbae7

Canonical record JSON

{
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    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7f6b2eda42b9b29bf062026d9bbabfc20b5762e58198ea6f1cd195874d73db8f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.DL"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-15T14:53:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3325635fc17d4e2faedcd7462f3a7a9967c87f1c255b253343ef70afc71c8666"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.26130",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}