Pith Number

pith:ZT4ESMVE

pith:2026:ZT4ESMVEDJ3TR43TSB66MAL63T

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

From Plausible to Actionable: A Position on LLM Self-Explanations

Benedetta Muscato, Elize Herrewijnen, Fosca Giannotti, Gizem Gezici

arxiv:2607.15957 v1 · 2026-07-17 · cs.CL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZT4ESMVEDJ3TR43TSB66MAL63T}

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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	2026-07-20T02:19:22.631338Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ccf84932a41a7738f373907de6017edcc9302de732a474e88b9412fbbd5a4ce3

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.15957 · arxiv_version: 2607.15957v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.15957 · pith_short_12: ZT4ESMVEDJ3T · pith_short_16: ZT4ESMVEDJ3TR43T · pith_short_8: ZT4ESMVE

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/ZT4ESMVEDJ3TR43TSB66MAL63T \
  | 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: ccf84932a41a7738f373907de6017edcc9302de732a474e88b9412fbbd5a4ce3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b2a342739709aaa5d473c862ec8cd29f7454bade7727538c785210a3973c4d47",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-17T13:44:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "00f7757402961a5a5cc23feead06ec7930af908278e678ec0c35cc91a79cfb37"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.15957",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}