Pith Number

pith:XBPFRQ5Q

pith:2026:XBPFRQ5QVKRA4XN33YCD3K4DSJ

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CASE: Causal Alignment and Structural Enforcement for Improving Chain-of-Thought Faithfulness

Changwu Huang, Ke Tang, Xin Yao, Yinghua Yao, Ziming Wang

arxiv:2607.18820 v1 · 2026-07-21 · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XBPFRQ5QVKRA4XN33YCD3K4DSJ}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-22T01:23:14.386143Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b85e58c3b0aaa20e5dbbde043dab83927546a4933e404e465023fb990ef1a1cb

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.18820 · arxiv_version: 2607.18820v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.18820 · pith_short_12: XBPFRQ5QVKRA · pith_short_16: XBPFRQ5QVKRA4XN3 · pith_short_8: XBPFRQ5Q

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/XBPFRQ5QVKRA4XN33YCD3K4DSJ \
  | 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: b85e58c3b0aaa20e5dbbde043dab83927546a4933e404e465023fb990ef1a1cb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "87e739694df94407f371a41f1ad093089972a0e2a3c2da370bff7ed924326477",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-21T07:56:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a50892e6e182c79e29fe7aebbca19976ef36407f6d2de005f1ce3897dbcff661"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.18820",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}