Pith Number

pith:XYLZBWIZ

pith:2026:XYLZBWIZVONJAEZZFXDFKA43DJ

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Tracing the Cascade: A Topology-Aware Evaluation Framework for Scientific Agent Hallucinations

Jing Shao, Lijun Li, Xinshun Feng, Ziqi Miao

arxiv:2608.00711 v1 · 2026-08-01 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XYLZBWIZVONJAEZZFXDFKA43DJ}

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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	2026-08-04T01:54:48.295510Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

be1790d919ab9a9013392dc655039b1a55d2b045af8b988e1db46757cb1a981b

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.00711 · arxiv_version: 2608.00711v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.00711 · pith_short_12: XYLZBWIZVONJ · pith_short_16: XYLZBWIZVONJAEZZ · pith_short_8: XYLZBWIZ

Agent API

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/XYLZBWIZVONJAEZZFXDFKA43DJ \
  | 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: be1790d919ab9a9013392dc655039b1a55d2b045af8b988e1db46757cb1a981b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1e168eb0d43aa304f754838a8789ebc94366a2d3227498274d6420072ecf060a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-01T15:19:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ec8d4e1d4e4f7c3dce3ea55a83d8e9da3eca351decc44197f584a925eaa2813b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.00711",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}