Pith Number

pith:VM6WURLJ

pith:2026:VM6WURLJFJWTTGAH2E2RYVJQDQ

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Optimal Bayesian Stopping for Efficient Inference of Consistent LLM Answers

Jingkai Huang, Will Ma, Zhengyuan Zhou

arxiv:2602.05395 v2 · 2026-02-05 · stat.ML · cs.AI · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VM6WURLJFJWTTGAH2E2RYVJQDQ}

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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	2026-06-02T02:04:14.050812Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ab3d6a45692a6d399807d1351c55301c342fc5db84a3f6c1b095f81ff79ac2e9

Aliases

arxiv: 2602.05395 · arxiv_version: 2602.05395v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2602.05395 · pith_short_12: VM6WURLJFJWT · pith_short_16: VM6WURLJFJWTTGAH · pith_short_8: VM6WURLJ

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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/VM6WURLJFJWTTGAH2E2RYVJQDQ \
  | 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: ab3d6a45692a6d399807d1351c55301c342fc5db84a3f6c1b095f81ff79ac2e9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "385a01966f6046a0c24dcbdfcb5064c35bf9e1b77859bfa2bf884acb1f3677fd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2026-02-05T07:22:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6ed0dcb80c2cbcda2551689e34c9935864a13f8e37a5bd50553aa7bb05ae6c2d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2602.05395",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}