Pith Number

pith:ECINRRXJ

pith:2025:ECINRRXJJOAZK5GL77KQYLRG52

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Causal Distillation: Transferring Structured Explanations from Large to Compact Language Models

Aggrey Muhebwa, Khalid K. Osman

arxiv:2505.19511 v1 · 2025-05-26 · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ECINRRXJJOAZK5GL77KQYLRG52}

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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.

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:09:31.567002Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2090d8c6e94b819574cbffd50c2e26ee9442ff633c7e8cca34b1e92c4b8ad676

Aliases

arxiv: 2505.19511 · arxiv_version: 2505.19511v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.19511 · pith_short_12: ECINRRXJJOAZ · pith_short_16: ECINRRXJJOAZK5GL · pith_short_8: ECINRRXJ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ECINRRXJJOAZK5GL77KQYLRG52 \
  | 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: 2090d8c6e94b819574cbffd50c2e26ee9442ff633c7e8cca34b1e92c4b8ad676

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1675eb01b522d27ff324b7b06a9ca3d747e89c96fafeb6d974e6320b09dc423b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2025-05-26T04:50:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d58e52bf3dcafb11fd77fa86991747e1fe5648555a47ff2b969fb6087a91eca7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2505.19511",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}