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pith:YELJ2MS2

pith:2026:YELJ2MS2SRZZ7EQWSNRSEUZPWY

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Mechanistic Analysis of Alignment Algorithms in Language Models

Aarush Sinha, Arth Singh, Ishan Garg, Kushal Garg, Veeraraju Elluru

arxiv:2606.09850 v1 · 2026-05-09 · cs.LG · cs.CL

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First computed	2026-06-10T00:08:28.478102Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c1169d325a94739f9216936322532fb632c6ae938c3b429bc23bfaa55590d955

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.09850 · arxiv_version: 2606.09850v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.09850 · pith_short_12: YELJ2MS2SRZZ · pith_short_16: YELJ2MS2SRZZ7EQW · pith_short_8: YELJ2MS2

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/YELJ2MS2SRZZ7EQWSNRSEUZPWY \
  | 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: c1169d325a94739f9216936322532fb632c6ae938c3b429bc23bfaa55590d955

Canonical record JSON

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    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-09T06:36:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "58d287ceba5e5e1ad4f02ca241526ed24e0dce68af02a3302fd4855d8e1cb421"
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