Pith Number

pith:IYW62XVB

pith:2026:IYW62XVBM67PIP2EAK2RDE7UNE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

LLMs as Noisy Channels: A Shannon Perspective on Model Capacity and Scaling Laws

Chen Zheng, Deyi Liu, Jing Liu, Thomas Hartvigsen, Xu Ouyang, Yiyuan Ma, Yuan Yang, Yuhang Cai

arxiv:2605.23901 v1 · 2026-05-22 · cs.LG · cs.AI · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IYW62XVBM67PIP2EAK2RDE7UNE}

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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	2026-05-25T02:02:38.648048Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

462ded5ea167bef43f4402b51193f46926e02448f3d174c98e3ef2730ae5b608

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.23901 · arxiv_version: 2605.23901v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.23901 · pith_short_12: IYW62XVBM67P · pith_short_16: IYW62XVBM67PIP2E · pith_short_8: IYW62XVB

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/IYW62XVBM67PIP2EAK2RDE7UNE \
  | 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: 462ded5ea167bef43f4402b51193f46926e02448f3d174c98e3ef2730ae5b608

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f8e240b5753c71c325bbee8898973f1e015ba3a80f7b078c230d41760a232895",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-22T17:59:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f525712475ccbc1ce28bcb2f30ee8edf58f6dde46a4ff56f5547c9074d427edf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.23901",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}