Pith Number

pith:X223NSX4

pith:2025:X223NSX42FHTNXJULXZPBYQKKP

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Existing LLMs Are Not Self-Consistent For Simple Tasks

Andrew Chi-Chih Yao, Jiawen Tao, Yang Yuan, Zhenru Lin

arxiv:2506.18781 v1 · 2025-06-23 · cs.CL

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Position: It's Time to Optimize LLMs for Self-Consistency

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:25:55.976020Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

beb5b6cafcd14f36dd345df2f0e20a53e3b6db521d8bdc7e262b07ead56da22d

Aliases

arxiv: 2506.18781 · arxiv_version: 2506.18781v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.18781 · pith_short_12: X223NSX42FHT · pith_short_16: X223NSX42FHTNXJU · pith_short_8: X223NSX4

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/X223NSX42FHTNXJULXZPBYQKKP \
  | 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: beb5b6cafcd14f36dd345df2f0e20a53e3b6db521d8bdc7e262b07ead56da22d

Canonical record JSON

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    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2025-06-23T15:50:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d41553fea725b7b6aed6a0a6396dbd6a252e1cba2cc33bd5a21ab0b2b2a6f7eb"
  },
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  "source": {
    "id": "2506.18781",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}