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pith:D47I62X2

pith:2025:D47I62X27SZQESLHFICPULUYAP

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Local Normalization Distortion and the Thermodynamic Formalism of Decoding Strategies for Large Language Models

Stuart Burrell, Tom Kempton

arxiv:2503.21929 v2 · 2025-03-27 · cs.CL · cs.LG · math.DS

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First computed	2026-07-05T12:07:05.696465Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

1f3e8f6afafcb30249672a04fa2e9803c50141f37eecf8ad49b9f513f43f3963

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arxiv: 2503.21929 · arxiv_version: 2503.21929v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2503.21929 · pith_short_12: D47I62X27SZQ · pith_short_16: D47I62X27SZQESLH · pith_short_8: D47I62X2

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/D47I62X27SZQESLHFICPULUYAP \
  | 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: 1f3e8f6afafcb30249672a04fa2e9803c50141f37eecf8ad49b9f513f43f3963

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    "submitted_at": "2025-03-27T19:15:43Z",
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