Pith Number

pith:ZIVMQLGN

pith:2026:ZIVMQLGNEA32P5Q5EJS7E3CN3B

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Convergence Without Understanding: When Language Models Agree on Representations but Disagree on Reasoning

Dong Eui Chang, Muhammad Usama

arxiv:2605.23315 v1 · 2026-05-22 · cs.CL · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZIVMQLGNEA32P5Q5EJS7E3CN3B}

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First computed	2026-05-25T02:01:48.568034Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ca2ac82ccd2037a7f61d2265f26c4dd862d429314f77469edab94ea01a74617a

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.23315 · arxiv_version: 2605.23315v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.23315 · pith_short_12: ZIVMQLGNEA32 · pith_short_16: ZIVMQLGNEA32P5Q5 · pith_short_8: ZIVMQLGN

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ZIVMQLGNEA32P5Q5EJS7E3CN3B \
  | 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: ca2ac82ccd2037a7f61d2265f26c4dd862d429314f77469edab94ea01a74617a

Canonical record JSON

{
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-22T07:32:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6a7546a2c985f2580b3fc6cf88695b78ca02ec6932fbcf45a574e3eae8a64d2f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.23315",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}