Pith Number

pith:GRRIER2A

pith:2026:GRRIER2ADB7I3T2YBSKHG2RVBK

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Narrative Flattening: How Post-Training Compresses Thematic, Affective, and Stylistic Variation in LLM Fiction

Honglin Bao, James A. Evans, Siyang Wu, Yutong Zhu, Zehan Li

arxiv:2605.27878 v1 · 2026-05-27 · cs.CL

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First computed	2026-05-28T01:04:51.101773Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3462824740187e8dcf580c94736a350ab56f3127278d7e024461da3e5213d9fc

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.27878 · arxiv_version: 2605.27878v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.27878 · pith_short_12: GRRIER2ADB7I · pith_short_16: GRRIER2ADB7I3T2Y · pith_short_8: GRRIER2A

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/GRRIER2ADB7I3T2YBSKHG2RVBK \
  | 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: 3462824740187e8dcf580c94736a350ab56f3127278d7e024461da3e5213d9fc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "238b3e0c4379b6616a4fa7d2772b2a2c09de2ad1797e339b99be1ed263354580",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-27T02:55:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f2de613a14ca1847df06894264d48784af1ee278bb552b3939382d3a59de7796"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.27878",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}