Pith Number

pith:4HI7PQU2

pith:2026:4HI7PQU2J5V2CBJW633B5FY5F2

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Instability of LLM Pre-Pretraining: It Doesn't Always Help. An Investigation on Multiple Languages

Nam Luu, Ond\v{r}ej Bojar, Sofiia Riazhskykh

arxiv:2608.08800 v1 · 2026-08-09 · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4HI7PQU2J5V2CBJW633B5FY5F2}

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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	2026-08-11T01:25:22.582802Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e1d1f7c29a4f6ba10536f6f61e971d2ea1505cf215f5d8317b4bf6511cb11db7

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.08800 · arxiv_version: 2608.08800v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.08800 · pith_short_12: 4HI7PQU2J5V2 · pith_short_16: 4HI7PQU2J5V2CBJW · pith_short_8: 4HI7PQU2

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/4HI7PQU2J5V2CBJW633B5FY5F2 \
  | 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: e1d1f7c29a4f6ba10536f6f61e971d2ea1505cf215f5d8317b4bf6511cb11db7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "de067c656e11754352b1058a2c64ac35713fde7aa5329bb0a0f0fbe653c6cdca",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-09T16:26:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "72f2f6738bc3c93e6c790ad4f870d90aa5ecec6b6eaac8af9983d6599d40dd3d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.08800",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}