Pith Number

pith:LNQ43R2Q

pith:2024:LNQ43R2QARWDLUX3NSLDWWVI3O

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Variational Best-of-N Alignment

Afra Amini, Elliott Ash, Ryan Cotterell, Tim Vieira

arxiv:2407.06057 v3 · 2024-07-08 · cs.CL · cs.AI · cs.LG

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\pithnumber{LNQ43R2QARWDLUX3NSLDWWVI3O}

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4 Citations 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.

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T10:23:54.802671Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5b61cdc750046c35d2fb6c963b5aa8db8473142f53cf705929bf78fe7aa4698b

Aliases

arxiv: 2407.06057 · arxiv_version: 2407.06057v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2407.06057 · pith_short_12: LNQ43R2QARWD · pith_short_16: LNQ43R2QARWDLUX3 · pith_short_8: LNQ43R2Q

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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/LNQ43R2QARWDLUX3NSLDWWVI3O \
  | 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: 5b61cdc750046c35d2fb6c963b5aa8db8473142f53cf705929bf78fe7aa4698b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b880367944008a8901ae5dbc28b132d235952eb607664cbe79d7f90641677645",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2024-07-08T15:59:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ad66f7cffbf3813f95a991bf1d1270bee312f60c5457f6288c952b5acb17f271"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2407.06057",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}