Pith Number

pith:YFPJSDAX

pith:2025:YFPJSDAXKO2WTKJLSTLOYJGH2Q

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Because we have LLMs, we Can and Should Pursue Agentic Interpretability

Been Kim, John Hewitt, Neel Nanda, Noah Fiedel, Oyvind Tafjord

arxiv:2506.12152 v1 · 2025-06-13 · 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{YFPJSDAXKO2WTKJLSTLOYJGH2Q}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

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.

Cited by

4 papers in Pith

Uncertainty Decomposition for Clarification Seeking in LLM Agents

A Geometric View for Understanding Concept Learning and Neuron Interpretation in Sparse Autoencoders

The Curse of Multiple Mediators: Hidden Interaction Effects in Activation Patching

Adaptive Chain-of-Focus Reasoning via Dynamic Visual Search and Zooming for Efficient VLMs

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T11:21:22.093532Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c15e990c1753b569a92b94d6ec24c7d433330c3b9713618e592577e870740807

Aliases

arxiv: 2506.12152 · arxiv_version: 2506.12152v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.12152 · pith_short_12: YFPJSDAXKO2W · pith_short_16: YFPJSDAXKO2WTKJL · pith_short_8: YFPJSDAX

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/YFPJSDAXKO2WTKJLSTLOYJGH2Q \
  | 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: c15e990c1753b569a92b94d6ec24c7d433330c3b9713618e592577e870740807

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c07c0ceecfffb8f619109fe5689670ee510b74ef89b6c10faf4a80309c06f745",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2025-06-13T18:13:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5475c2691d851023d95d3b863d6aae4c72ad83664d3d7106d4d93185d214e9f2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2506.12152",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}