Pith Number

pith:XO5TSOFY

pith:2026:XO5TSOFYZEX2TY3OGUPGZJZE2J

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Old Habits Die Hard: How Conversational History Geometrically Traps LLMs

Adi Simhi, Fazl Barez, Martin Tutek, Shay B. Cohen, Yonatan Belinkov

arxiv:2603.03308 v2 · 2026-02-08 · cs.CL · cs.AI

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\pithnumber{XO5TSOFYZEX2TY3OGUPGZJZE2J}

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-20T00:04:27.265802Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bbbb3938b8c92fa9e36e351e6ca724d25afc4eb78c5b5d08a1a58dce4d780508

Aliases

arxiv: 2603.03308 · arxiv_version: 2603.03308v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2603.03308 · pith_short_12: XO5TSOFYZEX2 · pith_short_16: XO5TSOFYZEX2TY3O · pith_short_8: XO5TSOFY

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/XO5TSOFYZEX2TY3OGUPGZJZE2J \
  | 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: bbbb3938b8c92fa9e36e351e6ca724d25afc4eb78c5b5d08a1a58dce4d780508

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e29e1e8971a1547a3181e8f5d3a033461f1feb30408470d25bfc00893a7682af",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-02-08T14:13:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ac87f11d8017effb927b4bbdd0ee7222b9a74a6df7e26cdb926c86ca08c1c675"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2603.03308",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}