Pith Number

pith:HQN4TXKX

pith:2026:HQN4TXKXSKC42ZVCDUEA3U36J7

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When Compression Helps and When It Hurts: Condition-Aware Analysis of Chain-of-Thought Distillation

Dawei Zhu, Siyang Lyu, Tong Liu, Xiaoyu Shen, Xinghao Chen, Zhijing Sun

arxiv:2606.21704 v1 · 2026-06-19 · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HQN4TXKXSKC42ZVCDUEA3U36J7}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-06-23T01:13:20.153529Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3c1bc9dd579285cd66a21d080dd37e4fe84642329d3fd1aff7dd843ce49c7406

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.21704 · arxiv_version: 2606.21704v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.21704 · pith_short_12: HQN4TXKXSKC4 · pith_short_16: HQN4TXKXSKC42ZVC · pith_short_8: HQN4TXKX

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/HQN4TXKXSKC42ZVCDUEA3U36J7 \
  | 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: 3c1bc9dd579285cd66a21d080dd37e4fe84642329d3fd1aff7dd843ce49c7406

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3734536111750f1df8be707cc21b58450e1d5da93fd7029006d522895d414978",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-19T19:31:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f867914b6301f551b31306d1ebb024e7b474305f30b9dbc69a16d08b609499af"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.21704",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}