Pith Number

pith:57G4YS6K

pith:2025:57G4YS6KWCJJPO6ZZLCPHNLL54

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Lost in Space: Finding the Right Tokens for Structured Output

David Mimno, Sil Hamilton

arxiv:2502.14969 v2 · 2025-02-20 · cs.CL

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\pithnumber{57G4YS6KWCJJPO6ZZLCPHNLL54}

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:46:39.263043Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

efcdcc4bcab09297bbd9cac4f3b56bef259a78178b877640b5be806b15c29c2f

Aliases

arxiv: 2502.14969 · arxiv_version: 2502.14969v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2502.14969 · pith_short_12: 57G4YS6KWCJJ · pith_short_16: 57G4YS6KWCJJPO6Z · pith_short_8: 57G4YS6K

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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/57G4YS6KWCJJPO6ZZLCPHNLL54 \
  | 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: efcdcc4bcab09297bbd9cac4f3b56bef259a78178b877640b5be806b15c29c2f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dcaf38c23518b111fb5dc9c45aeadac48ee9018f4678d248115d41f7cfe552e3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2025-02-20T19:06:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0ba3e38b1168de6c5df540a235c61afbad4cbfbcce70319b640ecb0d394a9e27"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2502.14969",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}