Pith Number

pith:YQN6EQKE

pith:2026:YQN6EQKEQ3LLWS7QANY7IMH3HX

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When and How Human Curation Backfires: Preference Alignment under Multi-Model Self-Consuming Loop

Xiukun Wei, Xueru Zhang, Yang Zhang

arxiv:2605.29267 v1 · 2026-05-28 · cs.AI · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YQN6EQKEQ3LLWS7QANY7IMH3HX}

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4 Citations 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.

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First computed	2026-05-29T01:05:28.082820Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c41be2414486d6bb4bf00371f430fb3dd284472e218945e784c4bc86020582cc

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.29267 · arxiv_version: 2605.29267v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.29267 · pith_short_12: YQN6EQKEQ3LL · pith_short_16: YQN6EQKEQ3LLWS7Q · pith_short_8: YQN6EQKE

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/YQN6EQKEQ3LLWS7QANY7IMH3HX \
  | 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: c41be2414486d6bb4bf00371f430fb3dd284472e218945e784c4bc86020582cc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "85dfd6b3ec895a33290f2c3f9b1c866e79c716615015be26803b2750ee771bf3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-28T02:36:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1a71ec93ebe119764421c3866d575c03b2c54026c35ef2bf05dc4ce24ca1d2d4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.29267",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}