Pith Number

pith:WUVIJCRJ

pith:2026:WUVIJCRJAS5LJDHI5XOXVGMNSV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Towards Distillation Guarantees under Algorithmic Alignment for Combinatorial Optimization

Melanie Weber, Thien Le

arxiv:2605.20074 v1 · 2026-05-19 · cs.LG

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WUVIJCRJAS5LJDHI5XOXVGMNSV}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-20T02:06:01.076612Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b52a848a2904bab48ce8eddd7a998d95414a84453c504748cafb073e93c1fbe2

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.20074 · arxiv_version: 2605.20074v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.20074 · pith_short_12: WUVIJCRJAS5L · pith_short_16: WUVIJCRJAS5LJDHI · pith_short_8: WUVIJCRJ

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/WUVIJCRJAS5LJDHI5XOXVGMNSV \
  | 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: b52a848a2904bab48ce8eddd7a998d95414a84453c504748cafb073e93c1fbe2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e76a70d2fec76fc6290e02ee860ba90cb8e2b81dd2853aa310092f53a52165c8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-19T16:28:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fea48bec0137dc7161a89bdd962be8b8f6f2432b92d3222fcd0575cdfe439ce3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.20074",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}