Pith Number

pith:R4TLXHSY

pith:2026:R4TLXHSYXL5U42BJCNONJDEOIJ

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Prescriptive Scaling Reveals the Evolution of Language Model Capabilities

Hanlin Zhang, Jikai Jin, Sham Kakade, Vasilis Syrgkanis

arxiv:2602.15327 v2 · 2026-02-17 · cs.LG · cs.AI · cs.CL · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{R4TLXHSYXL5U42BJCNONJDEOIJ}

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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	2026-06-09T01:05:14.539125Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8f26bb9e58bafb4e6829135cd48c8e42770b6c02fb2b3cc602e281a1dce3c18d

Aliases

arxiv: 2602.15327 · arxiv_version: 2602.15327v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2602.15327 · pith_short_12: R4TLXHSYXL5U · pith_short_16: R4TLXHSYXL5U42BJ · pith_short_8: R4TLXHSY

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/R4TLXHSYXL5U42BJCNONJDEOIJ \
  | 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: 8f26bb9e58bafb4e6829135cd48c8e42770b6c02fb2b3cc602e281a1dce3c18d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "39987265a369be7ef7ed3b479a8ac60ce33b7cf6fdaaeb7015790a0286b344a2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.CL",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-02-17T03:13:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "12d4ba1aeff87f4d21bee744f158cd2c9288f3ea9f3f7a52e3ae8b6bc1499592"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2602.15327",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}