Pith Number

pith:YFUEKYHQ

pith:2026:YFUEKYHQMID2AHWPCFN6ZF7L2H

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Trust Me, I'm an Expert: Decoding and Steering Authority Bias in Large Language Models

Emil Joswin, Priyanka Mary Mammen, Shankar Venkitachalam

arxiv:2601.13433 v3 · 2026-01-19 · cs.CL · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YFUEKYHQMID2AHWPCFN6ZF7L2H}

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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.

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Fragile Thoughts: How Large Language Models Handle Chain-of-Thought Perturbations

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First computed	2026-05-28T01:04:35.460009Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c1684560f06207a01ecf115bec97ebd1f716a50132568442b3f72933ef232d58

Aliases

arxiv: 2601.13433 · arxiv_version: 2601.13433v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2601.13433 · pith_short_12: YFUEKYHQMID2 · pith_short_16: YFUEKYHQMID2AHWP · pith_short_8: YFUEKYHQ

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/YFUEKYHQMID2AHWPCFN6ZF7L2H \
  | 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: c1684560f06207a01ecf115bec97ebd1f716a50132568442b3f72933ef232d58

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c0e31764e037f292d6b8ed562c0f3b568fe663ccab4c6e545e0bb325fdac00bf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-01-19T22:37:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fe2d6f247e637b5497e2b4d977f7c9bd5711eb9a08c29d9b48464bb198c49485"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2601.13433",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}