Pith Number

pith:UWRLGJ4U

pith:2025:UWRLGJ4UBH4HNPKLAC2CTO63RV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Simple Mechanistic Explanations for Out-Of-Context Reasoning

Atticus Wang, Joshua Engels, Neel Nanda, Oliver Clive-Griffin, Senthooran Rajamanoharan

arxiv:2507.08218 v2 · 2025-07-10 · cs.CL · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UWRLGJ4UBH4HNPKLAC2CTO63RV}

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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	2026-07-05T11:38:09.115517Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a5a2b3279409f876bd4b00b429bbdb8d55d4c15f258974ee05e569bbaa346744

Aliases

arxiv: 2507.08218 · arxiv_version: 2507.08218v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2507.08218 · pith_short_12: UWRLGJ4UBH4H · pith_short_16: UWRLGJ4UBH4HNPKL · pith_short_8: UWRLGJ4U

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/UWRLGJ4UBH4HNPKLAC2CTO63RV \
  | 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: a5a2b3279409f876bd4b00b429bbdb8d55d4c15f258974ee05e569bbaa346744

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "561b7a93dcf5f1beb3f49157aa107c26ab6edc5c2d61eac45aa6436579d79ab2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2025-07-10T23:47:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c5b46eedeef588a58a8f6302356033967a478368ac22e1b63d2d468204e29189"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2507.08218",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}