Pith Number

pith:2DX7V5CQ

pith:2026:2DX7V5CQ6NCLBLG2VVSSYIPJRD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Better Starts, Better Ends: Bootstrapped Iterative Self-Reasoning Distillation for Compressed Reasoning

Dongxu Zhang, Jihua Zhu, Leichao Dong, Lin Chen, Qirui Wang, Yiding Sun, Yuhan Wang

arxiv:2607.15736 v1 · 2026-07-17 · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2DX7V5CQ6NCLBLG2VVSSYIPJRD}

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4 Citations 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	2026-07-20T01:19:07.047599Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d0effaf450f344b0acdaad652c21e988f2a515799cab71539544e71a1ee14976

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.15736 · arxiv_version: 2607.15736v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.15736 · pith_short_12: 2DX7V5CQ6NCL · pith_short_16: 2DX7V5CQ6NCLBLG2 · pith_short_8: 2DX7V5CQ

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/2DX7V5CQ6NCLBLG2VVSSYIPJRD \
  | 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: d0effaf450f344b0acdaad652c21e988f2a515799cab71539544e71a1ee14976

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b2f3863808b7b834835aa033347752d855c20ad224338a6a0ae46b319ec6c060",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-17T08:15:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "289d9bb38993d6dc324492f032418f8cf5c274ce3a5eca944386637685bdbd88"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.15736",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}