Pith Number

pith:YY6JZTQL

pith:2026:YY6JZTQLN2VHEINS4SW555J777

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Understanding Inference Scaling for LLMs: Bottlenecks, Trade-offs, and Performance Principles

Avinash Maurya, Bogdan Nicolae, Moiz Arif, Sudharshan Vazhkudai

arxiv:2605.19775 v1 · 2026-05-19 · cs.DC · cs.PF

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YY6JZTQLN2VHEINS4SW555J777}

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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	2026-05-20T01:06:13.164388Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c63c9cce0b6eaa7221b2e4addef53fffd687d63b59bf3fa6f6c00b54421f4d06

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.19775 · arxiv_version: 2605.19775v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.19775 · pith_short_12: YY6JZTQLN2VH · pith_short_16: YY6JZTQLN2VHEINS · pith_short_8: YY6JZTQL

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/YY6JZTQLN2VHEINS4SW555J777 \
  | 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: c63c9cce0b6eaa7221b2e4addef53fffd687d63b59bf3fa6f6c00b54421f4d06

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cd7297cdec4f20f63b29b9e8c6a69b1a7b2608de49df895201eb2493a9a69258",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.PF"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-19T12:43:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fbe4aafa61e817c1d24c7528589c37cbafc464ea5ee995fa9638bee5c122d692"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.19775",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}