Pith Number

pith:ZQKSFTX2

pith:2026:ZQKSFTX2ANKXEWCYKZVMVF5GIZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Predictable Confabulations: Factual Recall by LLMs Scales with Model Size and Topic Frequency

Iyiola E. Olatunji, Jonathan P. Shock, Matthew L. Smith, Samuel T. Segun, Tegawend\'e F. Bissyand\'e

arxiv:2605.18732 v1 · 2026-05-18 · cs.CL · cs.AI · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZQKSFTX2ANKXEWCYKZVMVF5GIZ}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-20T00:06:17.873288Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cc1522cefa0355725858566aca97a6464d066a220d5bf869a4a585b171e42c80

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.18732 · arxiv_version: 2605.18732v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.18732 · pith_short_12: ZQKSFTX2ANKX · pith_short_16: ZQKSFTX2ANKXEWCY · pith_short_8: ZQKSFTX2

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/ZQKSFTX2ANKXEWCYKZVMVF5GIZ \
  | 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: cc1522cefa0355725858566aca97a6464d066a220d5bf869a4a585b171e42c80

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "89fb544a56247d4c10f57d97585fc133080d77c046a73ec371686eced1dc7045",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-18T17:53:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6c35117501e277a9120bc7f4236890fcef2c02d6380af780d03eded46a361a7a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.18732",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}