Pith Number

pith:U2MNZ5MY

pith:2026:U2MNZ5MY2R4EB2XMAMSTXYHG3Z

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Decomposed Prompting Does Not Fix Knowledge Gaps, But Helps Models Say "I Don't Know"

Dan Roth, Dhruv Madhwal, Lyuxin David Zhang, Tomer Wolfson, Vivek Gupta

arxiv:2602.04853 v2 · 2026-02-04 · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{U2MNZ5MY2R4EB2XMAMSTXYHG3Z}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-07-07T02:18:34.183544Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a698dcf598d47840eaec03253be0e6de6768dde596694939eb61c5e5f179b67e

Aliases

arxiv: 2602.04853 · arxiv_version: 2602.04853v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2602.04853 · pith_short_12: U2MNZ5MY2R4E · pith_short_16: U2MNZ5MY2R4EB2XM · pith_short_8: U2MNZ5MY

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/U2MNZ5MY2R4EB2XMAMSTXYHG3Z \
  | 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: a698dcf598d47840eaec03253be0e6de6768dde596694939eb61c5e5f179b67e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ae7a9f4aeea78b01a8253b0137a272b43d873d62392e6a373d9bee0ad5412475",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-02-04T18:39:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "88c0da02e2580274a616d441b823362083bf184ef6fe1b8f61ed0e2aa0831092"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2602.04853",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}