Pith Number

pith:U744LYWK

pith:2026:U744LYWKFSJQ47ZFACA5DK5O4N

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Mechanistic View of Authority Hierarchy in LLM Sycophancy

Emil Joswin, Priyanka Mary Mammen, Srujananjali Medicherla

arxiv:2607.00415 v1 · 2026-07-01 · cs.CL · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{U744LYWKFSJQ47ZFACA5DK5O4N}

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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	2026-07-02T01:17:42.746240Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a7f9c5e2ca2c930e7f250081d1abaee3789a6723fad76ddb14d3f65601cdf2cf

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.00415 · arxiv_version: 2607.00415v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.00415 · pith_short_12: U744LYWKFSJQ · pith_short_16: U744LYWKFSJQ47ZF · pith_short_8: U744LYWK

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/U744LYWKFSJQ47ZFACA5DK5O4N \
  | 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: a7f9c5e2ca2c930e7f250081d1abaee3789a6723fad76ddb14d3f65601cdf2cf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fc6d7e16945d41a897db49ecfb1b80417991f5c37181d6380a4ed6650ef7c0cd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-01T04:16:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a0e820e79363aa5e68fcde6f6a7491c2770f8439be887e82115a7e0702f2f4dc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.00415",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}