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pith:YZBZWDCW

pith:2026:YZBZWDCWVMHRDB23WWZZQZDRWE

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Thinking Before Constraining: A Unified Decoding Framework for Large Language Models

Alonso Silva, Armen Aghasaryan, Laith Zumot, Liubov Tupikina, Mehwish Alam, Ngoc Trinh Hung Nguyen

arxiv:2601.07525 v2 · 2026-01-12 · cs.CL · cs.AI

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First computed	2026-05-29T02:05:39.353593Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c6439b0c56ab0f11875bb5b3986471b11dee4ecabc7e87816c4c26d05e577109

Aliases

arxiv: 2601.07525 · arxiv_version: 2601.07525v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2601.07525 · pith_short_12: YZBZWDCWVMHR · pith_short_16: YZBZWDCWVMHRDB23 · pith_short_8: YZBZWDCW

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/YZBZWDCWVMHRDB23WWZZQZDRWE \
  | 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: c6439b0c56ab0f11875bb5b3986471b11dee4ecabc7e87816c4c26d05e577109

Canonical record JSON

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      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-01-12T13:25:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f48852eefcdbf6b2985d83060e64fbc84b6a75c8fc039eba35e30f8f86955114"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}