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pith:ME6XSYDW

pith:2025:ME6XSYDWCEBK3ZIPTM5JLPPPDG

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Code Copycat Conundrum: Demystifying Repetition in LLM-based Code Generation

Bingxu An, Fangming Zou, Juntao Li, Mingwei Liu, Qiuyuan Chen, Xin Peng, Xueying Du, Yiling Lou, Ying Wang, Yong Xu, Zhao Wei, Zuoyu Ou

arxiv:2504.12608 v1 · 2025-04-17 · cs.SE · cs.AI

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Bridging Generation and Training: A Systematic Review of Quality Issues in LLMs for Code

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First computed	2026-07-05T10:50:19.541052Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

613d7960761102ade50f9b3a95bdef19981b6a06e331979d47c2232291745357

Aliases

arxiv: 2504.12608 · arxiv_version: 2504.12608v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2504.12608 · pith_short_12: ME6XSYDWCEBK · pith_short_16: ME6XSYDWCEBK3ZIP · pith_short_8: ME6XSYDW

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ME6XSYDWCEBK3ZIPTM5JLPPPDG \
  | 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: 613d7960761102ade50f9b3a95bdef19981b6a06e331979d47c2232291745357

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "eab1f779703106f560a27eca15be9272e202aa952ba662c615b30c877fc4182b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2025-04-17T03:13:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "776aa0ccfc116554819ff0bd77881cd85179b69948f0669c0c6dee4b0e35e645"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2504.12608",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}