Pith Number

pith:ZAV3G5N6

pith:2026:ZAV3G5N6PFEAJWUGYU6FQQ7LQI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Confident but Conflicted: Internal Uncertainty and Cognitive Dissonance Resolution in LLMs

Kristina Lerman, Weihong Qi

arxiv:2606.22633 v1 · 2026-06-21 · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZAV3G5N6PFEAJWUGYU6FQQ7LQI}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-06-23T02:13:43.636341Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c82bb375be794804da86c53c5843eb820f7a44aea9ff1d2ffede992ddaddfc8d

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.22633 · arxiv_version: 2606.22633v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.22633 · pith_short_12: ZAV3G5N6PFEA · pith_short_16: ZAV3G5N6PFEAJWUG · pith_short_8: ZAV3G5N6

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/ZAV3G5N6PFEAJWUGYU6FQQ7LQI \
  | 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: c82bb375be794804da86c53c5843eb820f7a44aea9ff1d2ffede992ddaddfc8d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e66c700dbbfdc147beb1d545116cb55f6a2bcb0cfbe959d10bce5fa874938fd9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-21T18:39:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2c98675d5f2e5843b0dabddc3a9774f0eef986a4b83c5a97500de530ccf10837"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.22633",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}