Pith Number

pith:YDNZOXWK

pith:2026:YDNZOXWK6XRHNDSWYWANHJLHIK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Towards Understanding and Measuring COGNITIVE ATROPHY in LLM Behaviour

Abeer Badawi, Elham Dolatabadi, Frank Rudzicz, Laleh Seyyed-Kalantari, Moyosoreoluwa Olatosi, Negin Baghbanzadeh, R. Shayna Rosenbaum, Sara Pishdadian

arxiv:2606.18129 v1 · 2026-06-16 · cs.HC · cs.AI

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YDNZOXWK6XRHNDSWYWANHJLHIK}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-06-19T16:10:49.117660Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c0db975ecaf5e2768e56c580d3a5674282d04416b21d5be2e2b9893f3ca626a2

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.18129 · arxiv_version: 2606.18129v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.18129 · pith_short_12: YDNZOXWK6XRH · pith_short_16: YDNZOXWK6XRHNDSW · pith_short_8: YDNZOXWK

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/YDNZOXWK6XRHNDSWYWANHJLHIK \
  | 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: c0db975ecaf5e2768e56c580d3a5674282d04416b21d5be2e2b9893f3ca626a2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7cac51356d41449f3486c95d0711d8fd6d265cc95d9b7211ffd911013d79e400",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.HC",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-16T16:26:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c329cffbf4574fd52daf5a592f8c4a7b02d5330ed0c16711abe463c9cb190046"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.18129",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}