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pith:XHOIC3SD

pith:2025:XHOIC3SDDBHXSMJZ23BGRFO7JB

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Base Models Beat Aligned Models at Randomness and Creativity

Christopher Potts, Peter West

arxiv:2505.00047 v2 · 2025-04-30 · cs.CL

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First computed	2026-07-05T12:11:17.460103Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b9dc816e43184f793139d6c26895df485054d4b2bc2891a819e4899144246602

Aliases

arxiv: 2505.00047 · arxiv_version: 2505.00047v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.00047 · pith_short_12: XHOIC3SDDBHX · pith_short_16: XHOIC3SDDBHXSMJZ · pith_short_8: XHOIC3SD

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/XHOIC3SDDBHXSMJZ23BGRFO7JB \
  | 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: b9dc816e43184f793139d6c26895df485054d4b2bc2891a819e4899144246602

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "01822d857da1a105b1deaae8768a81729049f8647b1d32ebc4bea824cc212fc9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2025-04-30T03:41:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a58727ffa7c584104950f10f15229e06128d4004c8ff0bfd3941f0f729c88b66"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2505.00047",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}