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pith:BR4TOJJ4

pith:2025:BR4TOJJ4JVWVZWNFJJY5K32AWB

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Mind the Generation Process: Fine-Grained Confidence Estimation During LLM Generation

Guanglei Yue, Jiaqing Liang, Jie Shi, Jinyi Han, Liqian Wen, Shisong Chen, Tingyun Li, Xin Lin, Xinyi Wang, Yanghua Xiao, Zulong Chen

arxiv:2508.12040 v1 · 2025-08-16 · cs.CL · cs.AI

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:54:59.215128Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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0c7937253c4d6d5cd9a54a71d56f40b0741af5520d4e71cb6ab9e890b729efd0

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arxiv: 2508.12040 · arxiv_version: 2508.12040v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2508.12040 · pith_short_12: BR4TOJJ4JVWV · pith_short_16: BR4TOJJ4JVWVZWNF · pith_short_8: BR4TOJJ4

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BR4TOJJ4JVWVZWNFJJY5K32AWB \
  | 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: 0c7937253c4d6d5cd9a54a71d56f40b0741af5520d4e71cb6ab9e890b729efd0

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    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2025-08-16T13:29:35Z",
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