Pith Number

pith:V3GC3O6M

pith:2025:V3GC3O6MLK5W6MWF2AZ7LA3UN7

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Zero-Direction Probing: A Linear-Algebraic Framework for Deep Analysis of Large-Language-Model Drift

Amit Pandey

arxiv:2508.06776 v1 · 2025-08-09 · cs.LG · cs.AI · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{V3GC3O6MLK5W6MWF2AZ7LA3UN7}

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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.

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:51:35.148348Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aecc2dbbcc5abb6f32c5d033f583746fe76b3692f0c352f31fbb8885a857a6cb

Aliases

arxiv: 2508.06776 · arxiv_version: 2508.06776v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2508.06776 · pith_short_12: V3GC3O6MLK5W · pith_short_16: V3GC3O6MLK5W6MWF · pith_short_8: V3GC3O6M

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/V3GC3O6MLK5W6MWF2AZ7LA3UN7 \
  | 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: aecc2dbbcc5abb6f32c5d033f583746fe76b3692f0c352f31fbb8885a857a6cb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2025-08-09T02:05:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "794eb4bc8c6c39d0041d10370c237386c390b5cff17b56b431b6db73ba74252b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2508.06776",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}