Pith Number

pith:ZXET5ILL

pith:2025:ZXET5ILLNMMTT7VKL32T3BZ6OP

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Improved Representation Steering for Language Models

Aryaman Arora, Christopher D. Manning, Christopher Potts, Qinan Yu, Zhengxuan Wu

arxiv:2505.20809 v1 · 2025-05-27 · cs.CL

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T11:10:19.221225Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cdc93ea16b6b1939feaa5ef53d873e73e6f4710920eafa11d9d2cb3168fc4c99

Aliases

arxiv: 2505.20809 · arxiv_version: 2505.20809v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.20809 · pith_short_12: ZXET5ILLNMMT · pith_short_16: ZXET5ILLNMMTT7VK · pith_short_8: ZXET5ILL

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ZXET5ILLNMMTT7VKL32T3BZ6OP \
  | 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: cdc93ea16b6b1939feaa5ef53d873e73e6f4710920eafa11d9d2cb3168fc4c99

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cfcacb924a867d3f6274a954d9bc3c5415e75c95ba8b0d015074efc837625457",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2025-05-27T07:16:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "69703b7bd8b3186c967ffb4e3b0401097e3551fb926ad4075e81374e7dcdced8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2505.20809",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}