Pith Number

pith:UFU73PXZ

pith:2026:UFU73PXZB6SAVUI7JEK6E24GBG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Escaping the KL Agreement Trap in On-Policy Distillation

Anhao Zhao, Haoran Xin, Hui Xiong, Jin Li, Xiaoyu Shen, Ying Sun

arxiv:2606.09471 v1 · 2026-06-08 · cs.LG · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UFU73PXZB6SAVUI7JEK6E24GBG}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-06-09T02:08:50.377478Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a169fdbef90fa40ad11f4915e26b8609a6d7935682dd25b69e97ca2a42afb62c

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.09471 · arxiv_version: 2606.09471v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.09471 · pith_short_12: UFU73PXZB6SA · pith_short_16: UFU73PXZB6SAVUI7 · pith_short_8: UFU73PXZ

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/UFU73PXZB6SAVUI7JEK6E24GBG \
  | 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: a169fdbef90fa40ad11f4915e26b8609a6d7935682dd25b69e97ca2a42afb62c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d893b4bc9b714ecb1c160ab9c6edae4b407888c334fa140ffb39d3f7467e1a05",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-08T13:28:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "487502008e3f0eeec0e98d47f0e17bdea2cbfe9ffec9fbbda290690a212b22bd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.09471",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}