Pith Number

pith:WGLE6QWC

pith:2026:WGLE6QWCBHB7RZCVQCH34KPSSA

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The Consistency Illusion: How Multi-Agent Debate Hides Reasoning Misalignment

Christopher C. Yang, Xiaoyang Wang

arxiv:2606.08457 v1 · 2026-06-07 · cs.MA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WGLE6QWCBHB7RZCVQCH34KPSSA}

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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	2026-06-09T01:05:37.134238Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b1964f42c209c3f8e455808fbe29f2901f55a908d5158b617509ee021fbcb125

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.08457 · arxiv_version: 2606.08457v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.08457 · pith_short_12: WGLE6QWCBHB7 · pith_short_16: WGLE6QWCBHB7RZCV · pith_short_8: WGLE6QWC

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/WGLE6QWCBHB7RZCVQCH34KPSSA \
  | 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: b1964f42c209c3f8e455808fbe29f2901f55a908d5158b617509ee021fbcb125

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "86b3d4b01d43500cb980c9ffe13bcf38af69c33a7933d0311075cdee44a008cf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.MA",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-07T05:14:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e265e33b0d39383d6e98e65e3fe9102b7285a4496b026571f9d6e9d2f0cb7e75"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.08457",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}