Pith Number

pith:QRGKLWZH

pith:2026:QRGKLWZHNG2ZGUQ264E3PRZ2SC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Alignment Drift in Single-Model Speculative Decoding for ASR: Mechanism, Correction, and Cost

Alex Smola, Dongming Shen, Huapeng Zhou, Ke Bai, Silin Meng, Xiao-Wen Chang, Xinyu Wang, Ziyu Zhao

arxiv:2608.12703 v1 · 2026-08-13 · cs.SD · cs.MM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QRGKLWZHNG2ZGUQ264E3PRZ2SC}

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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	2026-08-14T00:46:57.375450Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

844ca5db2769b593521af709b7c73a90ac74ab477a466bb902985ee12e12eba3

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.12703 · arxiv_version: 2608.12703v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.12703 · pith_short_12: QRGKLWZHNG2Z · pith_short_16: QRGKLWZHNG2ZGUQ2 · pith_short_8: QRGKLWZH

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QRGKLWZHNG2ZGUQ264E3PRZ2SC \
  | 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: 844ca5db2769b593521af709b7c73a90ac74ab477a466bb902985ee12e12eba3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3e01541c828480bdc0089b60049c4a7ce2a88a8ad1116fe97582328c0e2b7562",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.MM"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SD",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-13T01:34:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "749253a0cee0ebf60245645de5fdd53af69903f796c09a0d4d10328aebaea78f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.12703",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}