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pith:GRI5B4Q7

pith:2024:GRI5B4Q77J7RAYHLX6BFMH4LEU

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Theoretical guarantees on the best-of-n alignment policy

Ahmad Beirami, Alekh Agarwal, Alexander D'Amour, Ananda Theertha Suresh, Chirag Nagpal, Jacob Eisenstein, Jonathan Berant

arxiv:2401.01879 v3 · 2024-01-03 · cs.LG · cs.CL · cs.IT · math.IT

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:11:30.709019Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3451d0f21ffa7f1060ebbf82561f8b250d934a1ee02c91541c122799a3d6eee9

Aliases

arxiv: 2401.01879 · arxiv_version: 2401.01879v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2401.01879 · pith_short_12: GRI5B4Q77J7R · pith_short_16: GRI5B4Q77J7RAYHL · pith_short_8: GRI5B4Q7

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/GRI5B4Q77J7RAYHLX6BFMH4LEU \
  | 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: 3451d0f21ffa7f1060ebbf82561f8b250d934a1ee02c91541c122799a3d6eee9

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL",
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2024-01-03T18:39:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ae3d87fcff3fce86fe653e1946f577b15e47e1cef781f81523abfaaf3a514983"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2401.01879",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}