Pith Number

pith:PMIJFM6K

pith:2026:PMIJFM6KJDOL6BKKAKDB4M6KCV

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Mixture of Training: Recombining Small-Scale Scaffolded Pretraining Runs into a Larger Language Model

Keith Rush, Lucio Dery, Mohammed Sabry, Sean Augenstein

arxiv:2608.13277 v1 · 2026-08-13 · cs.CL · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PMIJFM6KJDOL6BKKAKDB4M6KCV}

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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	2026-08-14T01:00:50.256178Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7b1092b3ca48dcbf054a02861e33ca155ec497e10883f61ebe0a4353e2a80bab

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.13277 · arxiv_version: 2608.13277v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.13277 · pith_short_12: PMIJFM6KJDOL · pith_short_16: PMIJFM6KJDOL6BKK · pith_short_8: PMIJFM6K

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/PMIJFM6KJDOL6BKKAKDB4M6KCV \
  | 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: 7b1092b3ca48dcbf054a02861e33ca155ec497e10883f61ebe0a4353e2a80bab

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5928e0a5b0263697a4cf68c4c27e5281b19df8aaeef7d33cff1c055889b6cb17",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-13T14:13:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5c31e59a5deda62866b7a86c18d2a354bcbc732457f005ee1c0daa87edde40c3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.13277",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}