Pith Number

pith:WEP2CQT5

pith:2026:WEP2CQT5Q34C3DYKEVTFCNCAFD

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The Equalizer: Introducing Shape-Gain Decomposition in Neural Audio Codecs

Laurent Girin, Samir Sadok, Xavier Alameda-Pineda

arxiv:2602.15491 v2 · 2026-02-17 · cs.SD · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WEP2CQT5Q34C3DYKEVTFCNCAFD}

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First computed	2026-07-28T02:23:26.148213Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b11fa1427d86f82d8f0a256651344028f38ba02be726ac087b4228b4c2c738aa

Aliases

arxiv: 2602.15491 · arxiv_version: 2602.15491v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2602.15491 · pith_short_12: WEP2CQT5Q34C · pith_short_16: WEP2CQT5Q34C3DYK · pith_short_8: WEP2CQT5

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/WEP2CQT5Q34C3DYKEVTFCNCAFD \
  | 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: b11fa1427d86f82d8f0a256651344028f38ba02be726ac087b4228b4c2c738aa

Canonical record JSON

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      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SD",
    "submitted_at": "2026-02-17T10:59:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "baf2c7038777b713b57c9880ccef302b0e5ad3d5c18b57aa7dd789df95752665"
  },
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  "source": {
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  }
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