Pith Number

pith:IB753FVT

pith:2026:IB753FVTRTO6XPAVENK3R2Y2OZ

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When Compression Scores Cannot Decide: Information Boundaries for Group-Robust LLM Pruning

Andrew Zhang

arxiv:2608.02940 v1 · 2026-08-03 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IB753FVTRTO6XPAVENK3R2Y2OZ}

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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	2026-08-05T00:43:53.275103Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

407fdd96b38cddebbc152355b8eb1a765134fe87910c7b2a0713369fe931703a

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.02940 · arxiv_version: 2608.02940v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.02940 · pith_short_12: IB753FVTRTO6 · pith_short_16: IB753FVTRTO6XPAV · pith_short_8: IB753FVT

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/IB753FVTRTO6XPAVENK3R2Y2OZ \
  | 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: 407fdd96b38cddebbc152355b8eb1a765134fe87910c7b2a0713369fe931703a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "62333ac25d803e51cc9f24857e10fe22956582cda88d72d6270d21c7485296ec",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-03T23:07:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "63cbd778a7ca9c099e7a1e051af33e15627483b6ed651de8dd486e8f3a35ddc1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.02940",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}