Pith Number

pith:VBBZK2N2

pith:2025:VBBZK2N2X2ROQ2X2HU4BZTSCOZ

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We Think, Therefore We Align LLMs to Helpful, Harmless and Honest Before They Go Wrong

Gautam Siddharth Kashyap, Mark Dras, Usman Naseem

arxiv:2509.22510 v3 · 2025-09-26 · cs.CL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VBBZK2N2X2ROQ2X2HU4BZTSCOZ}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-20T00:02:06.825187Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a8439569babea2e86afa3d381cce42764f0474e727ac53f82b0f85c88b5d4288

Aliases

arxiv: 2509.22510 · arxiv_version: 2509.22510v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2509.22510 · pith_short_12: VBBZK2N2X2RO · pith_short_16: VBBZK2N2X2ROQ2X2 · pith_short_8: VBBZK2N2

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/VBBZK2N2X2ROQ2X2HU4BZTSCOZ \
  | 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: a8439569babea2e86afa3d381cce42764f0474e727ac53f82b0f85c88b5d4288

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "12990bea7ee7feea1a2bedce3908e945aaa882670dfb43cb86b6c6685c84573b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2025-09-26T15:52:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "22ec9a0cd5620de7bfba31d65efec72a852705413eaeee7f573be515043c5834"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2509.22510",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}