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pith:HGGUFKMU

pith:2026:HGGUFKMU3AHM6CVVCL3TMKDDCW

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The WER Trap: Shattering the Illusion of Unified Tokens in Speech Language Models

Beena Ahmed, Haoyang Zhang, Hexin Liu, Julien Epps, Qiquan Zhang, Shiqi Han, Xiangyu Zhang, Yuxin Li

arxiv:2605.29209 v1 · 2026-05-28 · eess.AS

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First computed	2026-05-29T01:05:24.439019Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

398d42a994d80ecf0ab512f736286315b9fcf5a5f7a428c578a8b83813d67847

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.29209 · arxiv_version: 2605.29209v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.29209 · pith_short_12: HGGUFKMU3AHM · pith_short_16: HGGUFKMU3AHM6CVV · pith_short_8: HGGUFKMU

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/HGGUFKMU3AHM6CVVCL3TMKDDCW \
  | 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: 398d42a994d80ecf0ab512f736286315b9fcf5a5f7a428c578a8b83813d67847

Canonical record JSON

{
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "eess.AS",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-28T00:42:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0246965f7dcf179dea863480482de177b8edc5d6fce929ee45884d55ed336a93"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.29209",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}