Pith Number

pith:ULSCV42R

pith:2026:ULSCV42RMAWDX34EOETGJA7OST

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Covert Trait Propagation Is Representation Alignment: Mechanistic Evidence from Hidden-Channel Distillation

Aditya Shah, Kargi Chauhan

arxiv:2607.04432 v1 · 2026-07-05 · cs.LG · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ULSCV42RMAWDX34EOETGJA7OST}

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First computed	2026-07-07T02:19:18.506605Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a2e42af351602c3bef8471266483ee94c1da4be733d3db4a1a5bf2f85600958e

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.04432 · arxiv_version: 2607.04432v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.04432 · pith_short_12: ULSCV42RMAWD · pith_short_16: ULSCV42RMAWDX34E · pith_short_8: ULSCV42R

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ULSCV42RMAWDX34EOETGJA7OST \
  | 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: a2e42af351602c3bef8471266483ee94c1da4be733d3db4a1a5bf2f85600958e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a717e87783966c3320f3199fe8b57b77fd06b9779c2c146bf27527abe21fa744",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-05T17:52:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ff932443dfc4ff225fbeed4e69c208d6ab55a0d8cc8fd7608b84c44c11916dc9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.04432",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}