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pith:SB4MG3NM

pith:2026:SB4MG3NMTLU3CZAKCVMNZXORB2

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Emulate or Estimate? The Divergent Strengths of Base and Post-Trained Language Models for Opinion Simulation

Ashton Anderson, Difan Jiao, Jessica Bo, Seth Grief-Albert

arxiv:2608.03044 v1 · 2026-08-04 · cs.CL · cs.AI

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First computed	2026-08-05T00:44:59.424444Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9078c36dac9ae9b1640a1558dcddd10ebdcb56cef9e68dd95136349af35dfd2c

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.03044 · arxiv_version: 2608.03044v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.03044 · pith_short_12: SB4MG3NMTLU3 · pith_short_16: SB4MG3NMTLU3CZAK · pith_short_8: SB4MG3NM

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/SB4MG3NMTLU3CZAKCVMNZXORB2 \
  | 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: 9078c36dac9ae9b1640a1558dcddd10ebdcb56cef9e68dd95136349af35dfd2c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8302d8d6d81e5b4707d30f7725fbfaea46f061074804721ff336c8e6d29e75d8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-04T02:51:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "645f581c388e85ebc873af15a0bf6d4a8bbd23e84608c04607494f980518980a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.03044",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}