Pith Number

pith:XFEMU7DJ

pith:2026:XFEMU7DJWV2HNNVHAYGKXNFR3Y

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Deeper is Not Always Better: Mitigating the Alignment Tax via Confident Layer Decoding

An Yang, Chujie Zheng, Dayiheng Liu, Fei Huang, Gao Huang, Jingren Zhou, Sean Du, Sining Zhoubian, Tianyi Tang, Xuanming Zhang, Yuxuan Chen

arxiv:2606.21906 v1 · 2026-06-20 · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XFEMU7DJWV2HNNVHAYGKXNFR3Y}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-06-23T02:13:02.528565Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b948ca7c69b57476b6a7060cabb4b1de335261c2e720089c36947842b60d90e8

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.21906 · arxiv_version: 2606.21906v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.21906 · pith_short_12: XFEMU7DJWV2H · pith_short_16: XFEMU7DJWV2HNNVH · pith_short_8: XFEMU7DJ

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/XFEMU7DJWV2HNNVHAYGKXNFR3Y \
  | 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: b948ca7c69b57476b6a7060cabb4b1de335261c2e720089c36947842b60d90e8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d02ad61dc1bbd72532a753ddf5608cb472eef4c2f1e29255034555cdc0d3532f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-20T07:03:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "edec682b53e8891fd1c9845d245eb96895c1371bc3bda8f1b3f39a8246f4a235"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.21906",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}