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pith:U2MNVBJ5

pith:2025:U2MNVBJ5OCHD4BLW2UMQEVLJRO

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Pruning Weights but Not Truth: Safeguarding Truthfulness While Pruning LLMs

Haotian Yu, Pan Li, Runchao Li, Xianxuan Long, Xiaotian Han, Yao Fu, Yu Yin

arxiv:2509.00096 v2 · 2025-08-27 · cs.LG · cs.CL

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First computed	2026-07-05T12:04:17.465709Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a698da853d708e3e0576d5190255698b83b0c66d4ed03b99a1be04a131dab961

Aliases

arxiv: 2509.00096 · arxiv_version: 2509.00096v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2509.00096 · pith_short_12: U2MNVBJ5OCHD · pith_short_16: U2MNVBJ5OCHD4BLW · pith_short_8: U2MNVBJ5

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/U2MNVBJ5OCHD4BLW2UMQEVLJRO \
  | 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: a698da853d708e3e0576d5190255698b83b0c66d4ed03b99a1be04a131dab961

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6bf653c940d6b74338a0557e9b862f3b4df96785930f53f6739aa60904c8e77d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2025-08-27T15:48:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "467336a36d94b7338c3afa679a14b8fdab7d50106fa5131f30603f37afcea5ab"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2509.00096",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}