Pith Number

pith:BRCTF5OO

pith:2026:BRCTF5OOP27ESXZGIBLHPY4GDE

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Are we Merging the Right Models? Impact of Expert Training Duration on Model Merging for LLMs

Jack Butler, Nikita Kozodoi, Zainab Afolabi

arxiv:2607.11997 v1 · 2026-07-13 · cs.LG · cs.AI · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BRCTF5OOP27ESXZGIBLHPY4GDE}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-07-15T00:21:26.749761Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0c4532f5ce7ebe495f26405677e386193378f1c6175d9f4da4ddb27b4c37f05f

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.11997 · arxiv_version: 2607.11997v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.11997 · pith_short_12: BRCTF5OOP27E · pith_short_16: BRCTF5OOP27ESXZG · pith_short_8: BRCTF5OO

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/BRCTF5OOP27ESXZGIBLHPY4GDE \
  | 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: 0c4532f5ce7ebe495f26405677e386193378f1c6175d9f4da4ddb27b4c37f05f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f7625397de1e0294017ac6b77954298d45c7b4ad604336c51257db8fde05764c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-13T16:08:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2a18513ab80e2ee8e76a805ed38c316d19e104396619ca6140697c9e83f48fcb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.11997",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}