Pith Number

pith:WSDADBLB

pith:2026:WSDADBLBKD7NPS34OY7U7OGAE2

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Detecting Safety Training Modification in Language Models via Activation Analysis

Glen Messenger

arxiv:2608.05578 v1 · 2026-08-06 · cs.CR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WSDADBLBKD7NPS34OY7U7OGAE2}

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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	2026-08-07T00:49:56.169536Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b48601856150fed7cb7c763f4fb8c026b2ace327dfcee0bd2f4e4d233a8fc59c

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.05578 · arxiv_version: 2608.05578v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.05578 · pith_short_12: WSDADBLBKD7N · pith_short_16: WSDADBLBKD7NPS34 · pith_short_8: WSDADBLB

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/WSDADBLBKD7NPS34OY7U7OGAE2 \
  | 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: b48601856150fed7cb7c763f4fb8c026b2ace327dfcee0bd2f4e4d233a8fc59c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dea0eef4ceff681314520f7447bcf81af331c8d91be36ebd9b7a6e23dc53af81",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-06T03:57:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "56427d06dd9a94058145ab2b66a0b2d717affeb8f0072becafe86dcd9f6ae6df"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.05578",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}