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pith:NTMYQHMO

pith:2025:NTMYQHMOSUD4QLUMRSNEETCP3I

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Position: Model Collapse Does Not Mean What You Think

Alvan Caleb Arulandu, Joshua Kazdan, Rylan Schaeffer, Sanmi Koyejo

arxiv:2503.03150 v2 · 2025-03-05 · cs.LG · cs.AI · cs.CY

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First computed	2026-07-05T10:33:09.063989Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6cd9881d8e9507c82e8c8c9a424c4fda2e122af447dec7e4b743296366af31ca

Aliases

arxiv: 2503.03150 · arxiv_version: 2503.03150v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2503.03150 · pith_short_12: NTMYQHMOSUD4 · pith_short_16: NTMYQHMOSUD4QLUM · pith_short_8: NTMYQHMO

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NTMYQHMOSUD4QLUMRSNEETCP3I \
  | 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: 6cd9881d8e9507c82e8c8c9a424c4fda2e122af447dec7e4b743296366af31ca

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.CY"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2025-03-05T03:47:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0c28b4aca8d5a0acc8dbb0300a61d664d35037df88dd9c180948082354989581"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}