Pith Number

pith:TABDJPPX

pith:2026:TABDJPPXVLDSBF4QJUL5JQBVFI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Innovation: An Almost Characterization of Hallucination

Nishant P. Das, Piyush Srivastava

arxiv:2605.26808 v1 · 2026-05-26 · cs.LG · cs.AI · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TABDJPPXVLDSBF4QJUL5JQBVFI}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-27T01:06:13.767188Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

980234bdf7aac72097904d17d4c0352a245edc86bcd679c4e8e6347904f9083f

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.26808 · arxiv_version: 2605.26808v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.26808 · pith_short_12: TABDJPPXVLDS · pith_short_16: TABDJPPXVLDSBF4Q · pith_short_8: TABDJPPX

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/TABDJPPXVLDSBF4QJUL5JQBVFI \
  | 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: 980234bdf7aac72097904d17d4c0352a245edc86bcd679c4e8e6347904f9083f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0c8e7f5a8b0732257e27dea206ab86ce1542f86780d1ae2db2b52f8af78e64d9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-26T10:24:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "35a6e720c60f8c080ddccf9762420fc4de427cd2abeefa8ef11f9973074ff178"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.26808",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}