Pith Number

pith:VDYXBPT2

pith:2026:VDYXBPT24AG3KZVQQTOPEDD326

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HopRefusalBench: Diagnosing Refusal Failures in Search-Augmented Agents for Multi-Hop Reasoning

Bowen Song, Jianan Xie, Qiang Liu, Xing Zheng, Xin Sun, Zhongqi Chen

arxiv:2608.01358 v1 · 2026-08-02 · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VDYXBPT24AG3KZVQQTOPEDD326}

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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	2026-08-04T02:04:52.491100Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a8f170be7ae00db566b084dcf20c7bd7a2f6c2a8ffec79696e9612edcbfe36ea

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.01358 · arxiv_version: 2608.01358v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.01358 · pith_short_12: VDYXBPT24AG3 · pith_short_16: VDYXBPT24AG3KZVQ · pith_short_8: VDYXBPT2

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VDYXBPT24AG3KZVQQTOPEDD326 \
  | 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: a8f170be7ae00db566b084dcf20c7bd7a2f6c2a8ffec79696e9612edcbfe36ea

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a3cb67f0e1e66b5ec4e618d5d532e0c9d782b09fd40fa8be46a9441dcdfd03b2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-02T16:20:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "160e63ad112696b1738bb72712dc7d3aef61b77e4abbe8dc8d3c9837c94acb18"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.01358",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}