Pith Number

pith:WIDEHESI

pith:2026:WIDEHESIX4Y23COXMN223HEG7N

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Principled Agent Debate: Adversarial Arbitration for Sycophancy Reduction in Large Language Models

Sam Ryan

arxiv:2606.07532 v1 · 2026-04-21 · cs.CL · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WIDEHESIX4Y23COXMN223HEG7N}

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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	2026-06-09T00:04:41.851937Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b206439248bf31ad89d76375ad9c86fb6df5689607e908614cfba08cf55548f3

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.07532 · arxiv_version: 2606.07532v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.07532 · pith_short_12: WIDEHESIX4Y2 · pith_short_16: WIDEHESIX4Y23COX · pith_short_8: WIDEHESI

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/WIDEHESIX4Y23COXMN223HEG7N \
  | 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: b206439248bf31ad89d76375ad9c86fb6df5689607e908614cfba08cf55548f3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d50e537da7c3c629cef2e249ae5edc5e2059ec75e54ea73c57500d4b612b4920",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-04-21T10:30:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e287220c5feee3cc4b218e416dffd6bf2c37a5a1bbddb9933d1a09a83881ba54"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.07532",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}