Pith Number

pith:S6XGNGEK

pith:2026:S6XGNGEKXHOCF6NDBBRDLSWZTJ

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Reason Wide, Not Deep: Amortizing the Reasoning Premium into Distilled Skills

Agamdeep Singh, Nikita Mehrotra, Priyanshu Gupta, Srishti Gautam, Sumit Gulwani, Tanmay Bakshi

arxiv:2608.07885 v1 · 2026-08-08 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{S6XGNGEKXHOCF6NDBBRDLSWZTJ}

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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	2026-08-11T01:18:50.107540Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

97ae66988ab9dc22f9a3086235cad99a6f881bccbd5764135c5139e2fcaac9ff

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.07885 · arxiv_version: 2608.07885v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.07885 · pith_short_12: S6XGNGEKXHOC · pith_short_16: S6XGNGEKXHOCF6ND · pith_short_8: S6XGNGEK

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/S6XGNGEKXHOCF6NDBBRDLSWZTJ \
  | 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: 97ae66988ab9dc22f9a3086235cad99a6f881bccbd5764135c5139e2fcaac9ff

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fdf7c6cd7a8d2a97ef1d61fe48fb9bd0ca85305ebb74f5eaa48f9e56ed23f141",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-08T03:22:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e21931c0f58f50f6195953b96502643fef0eed2979aa725ddfb881a1707e24a5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.07885",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}