Pith Number

pith:PTVKMAZC

pith:2026:PTVKMAZCZ6XSJQZUNNB2AFBJBL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Decoupled Contrastive Decoding via Expert-Aligned Drafting

Chao Yang, Yuanfu Wang, Zhichen Dong, Zhixuan Liu

arxiv:2608.12913 v1 · 2026-08-13 · cs.CL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PTVKMAZCZ6XSJQZUNNB2AFBJBL}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-08-14T00:58:56.209030Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7ceaa60322cfaf24c3346b43a014290ac88afb20a740a5c7e06532b64a51110a

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.12913 · arxiv_version: 2608.12913v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.12913 · pith_short_12: PTVKMAZCZ6XS · pith_short_16: PTVKMAZCZ6XSJQZU · pith_short_8: PTVKMAZC

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/PTVKMAZCZ6XSJQZUNNB2AFBJBL \
  | 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: 7ceaa60322cfaf24c3346b43a014290ac88afb20a740a5c7e06532b64a51110a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "eb85a4bfcffa1f5474afde14bf5db4d0c40f2e516dd5d4720469e981eaaea660",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-13T07:56:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e4590445b0356e65025f50456f4230c5dbc4f61be2d31c2730bd9a428a1f0a27"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.12913",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}