Pith Number

pith:WMM5HF7Y

pith:2024:WMM5HF7YEA6IXGRYBUGNMGWPKM

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When Context Leads but Parametric Memory Follows in Large Language Models

Adam Hiatt, Ameeta Agrawal, Antonie J. Jetter, Erik Haake, Yufei Tao

arxiv:2409.08435 v4 · 2024-09-13 · cs.CL · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WMM5HF7YEA6IXGRYBUGNMGWPKM}

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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	2026-07-05T09:38:29.448301Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b319d397f8203c8b9a380d0cd61acf531b6b612a824b302ae3980661ce81ac79

Aliases

arxiv: 2409.08435 · arxiv_version: 2409.08435v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2409.08435 · pith_short_12: WMM5HF7YEA6I · pith_short_16: WMM5HF7YEA6IXGRY · pith_short_8: WMM5HF7Y

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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/WMM5HF7YEA6IXGRYBUGNMGWPKM \
  | 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: b319d397f8203c8b9a380d0cd61acf531b6b612a824b302ae3980661ce81ac79

Canonical record JSON

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    "abstract_canon_sha256": "57249330040ae5219f425d1cc48bd139ed0cb07842c94f61c84741fc6b5cd540",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2024-09-13T00:03:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c2ed6457385f23f3cbf24a774a07cca1db6d32f887b4c4cebf3b72cbc07a5bfe"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2409.08435",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}