Pith Number

pith:F5A5Z43W

pith:2026:F5A5Z43WO4L2HEQF5L6WSGVPJT

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Clozing the Gap: Exploring Why Language Model Surprisal Outperforms Cloze Surprisal

Byung-Doh Oh, Sathvik Nair

arxiv:2601.09886 v2 · 2026-01-14 · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{F5A5Z43WO4L2HEQF5L6WSGVPJT}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-27T02:06:13.528217Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2f41dcf3767717a39205eafd691aaf4cdbac93dd0c7f36a9fad4cff05d31f9f0

Aliases

arxiv: 2601.09886 · arxiv_version: 2601.09886v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2601.09886 · pith_short_12: F5A5Z43WO4L2 · pith_short_16: F5A5Z43WO4L2HEQF · pith_short_8: F5A5Z43W

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/F5A5Z43WO4L2HEQF5L6WSGVPJT \
  | 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: 2f41dcf3767717a39205eafd691aaf4cdbac93dd0c7f36a9fad4cff05d31f9f0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3bcac7df003c4899770f814084179d0bf654cb6246171ff07f6a7e26a4a13e66",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-01-14T21:38:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d8f9ebf7ef85fb11ec507aed9392d44b55d9d5d5013d78b9b156cdb79ef91ece"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2601.09886",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}