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pith:VTT3KRZA

pith:2024:VTT3KRZAGU6GB4MHGHUOFHSDVI

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Sycophancy in Large Language Models: Causes and Mitigations

Lars Malmqvist

arxiv:2411.15287 v1 · 2024-11-22 · cs.CL · cs.AI

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First computed	2026-07-05T10:06:45.928088Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

ace7b54720353c60f18731e8e29e43aa0c801a690dbe8a274c698de50cb10883

Aliases

arxiv: 2411.15287 · arxiv_version: 2411.15287v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2411.15287 · pith_short_12: VTT3KRZAGU6G · pith_short_16: VTT3KRZAGU6GB4MH · pith_short_8: VTT3KRZA

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VTT3KRZAGU6GB4MHGHUOFHSDVI \
  | 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: ace7b54720353c60f18731e8e29e43aa0c801a690dbe8a274c698de50cb10883

Canonical record JSON

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    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2024-11-22T16:56:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ba71620ca4a93d234603932424d02e6b2e67a8d1d2ade0709875c651f9b1aa82"
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