Pith Number

pith:YKX76KRH

pith:2026:YKX76KRHABPBO75U2JQD5NBOKT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

From Confident Closing to Silent Failure: Characterizing False Success in LLM Agents

Laksh Advani

arxiv:2606.09863 v1 · 2026-06-01 · cs.LG

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YKX76KRHABPBO75U2JQD5NBOKT}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-06-10T00:08:30.129395Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c2afff2a27005e177fb4d2603eb42e54ca7efb15e7ef43a0dfaf40ae05350104

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.09863 · arxiv_version: 2606.09863v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.09863 · pith_short_12: YKX76KRHABPB · pith_short_16: YKX76KRHABPBO75U · pith_short_8: YKX76KRH

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/YKX76KRHABPBO75U2JQD5NBOKT \
  | 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: c2afff2a27005e177fb4d2603eb42e54ca7efb15e7ef43a0dfaf40ae05350104

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8e253dacbc933ca321ed5be82bce4301aca141f2b7e20a776558edd9901256cb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-01T00:13:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "99fda449e69435d93def2bfc05433e5b9bd805f3c14dbdecf2a2671cdad3d00f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.09863",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}