Pith Number

pith:UE5BEKKL

pith:2026:UE5BEKKLFUUC2D2NMUG5IUPCSN

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Operational Proto-Introspection in Looped Language Models: Process-Quality Taps, Executable Branching, and the Readout-Control Boundary

Jan Kirin

arxiv:2607.18553 v1 · 2026-07-20 · cs.LG · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UE5BEKKLFUUC2D2NMUG5IUPCSN}

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First computed	2026-07-22T00:22:54.046839Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a13a12294b2d282d0f4d650dd451e2934a00dddef31581c5b4d92c3d9ebd2234

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.18553 · arxiv_version: 2607.18553v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.18553 · pith_short_12: UE5BEKKLFUUC · pith_short_16: UE5BEKKLFUUC2D2N · pith_short_8: UE5BEKKL

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/UE5BEKKLFUUC2D2NMUG5IUPCSN \
  | 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: a13a12294b2d282d0f4d650dd451e2934a00dddef31581c5b4d92c3d9ebd2234

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4b1f563512d9d725d22a3a553b1b36a4ee7a5f59234e93f537e4917fcb673b79",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-20T22:40:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "218e9d60494a310dd3ed897703a9cc1b65ef7d48ae98f93662a685a947316c8f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.18553",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}