Pith Number

pith:J2PEM7G5

pith:2026:J2PEM7G5HYFN6LWTLL647H47E4

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Stochastic Sampling is Epistemically Shallow: The Dimensionality Gap Between Temperature Variation and Model Diversity in LLMs

Izhar Ali

arxiv:2607.20464 v1 · 2026-05-18 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{J2PEM7G5HYFN6LWTLL647H47E4}

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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.

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First computed	2026-07-24T00:23:16.932193Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4e9e467cdd3e0adf2ed35afdcf9f9f273e73e6d960deb630155cbc74680276a0

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.20464 · arxiv_version: 2607.20464v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.20464 · pith_short_12: J2PEM7G5HYFN · pith_short_16: J2PEM7G5HYFN6LWT · pith_short_8: J2PEM7G5

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/J2PEM7G5HYFN6LWTLL647H47E4 \
  | 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: 4e9e467cdd3e0adf2ed35afdcf9f9f273e73e6d960deb630155cbc74680276a0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "53df69bbe12ade88905146ac983deab20d86769c1d7452e17cfd6c52e41258dc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-18T14:40:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "62cd35e7710a07c6ef174c91da88a289ad4559c391123ad9c6e5065044529dfc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.20464",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}