Pith Number

pith:XIHANZK6

pith:2026:XIHANZK65NKDF5ZDDC5WRWMWFN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

When Are Teacher Tokens Reliable? Position-Weighted On-Policy Self-Distillation for Reasoning

Chaowei Xiao, Xiaogeng Liu, Xinyan Wang, Yechao Zhang, Yingzi Ma

arxiv:2605.21606 v1 · 2026-05-20 · cs.LG · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XIHANZK65NKDF5ZDDC5WRWMWFN}

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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	2026-05-22T01:03:25.134858Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ba0e06e55eeb5432f72318bb68d9962b7bb3001e20197722fcf4afabaec104ed

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.21606 · arxiv_version: 2605.21606v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.21606 · pith_short_12: XIHANZK65NKD · pith_short_16: XIHANZK65NKDF5ZD · pith_short_8: XIHANZK6

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/XIHANZK65NKDF5ZDDC5WRWMWFN \
  | 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: ba0e06e55eeb5432f72318bb68d9962b7bb3001e20197722fcf4afabaec104ed

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b99e95096ddf6355c7227a9fc51aa97f64e2a1e37368fb4eac9014a7da3a3d58",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-20T18:14:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "110b2b5f3dfee9b2789bb7172032c4753a6dc21a6cb4620b5616db3c19239d9e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.21606",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}