Pith Number

pith:ZJYZJGWD

pith:2026:ZJYZJGWD5ASROHGAY3PENYE645

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On-Policy Self-Distillation without Any Supervision

Bingyang Wang, Di Fu, Nuno Vasconcelos, Yijiang Li, Yijun Liang, Yunjie Tian

arxiv:2608.06296 v1 · 2026-08-06 · cs.LG

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZJYZJGWD5ASROHGAY3PENYE645}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-08-07T01:41:19.146483Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ca71949ac3e825171cc0c6de46e09ee764591bb974f660edbb085a63773bf4f1

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.06296 · arxiv_version: 2608.06296v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.06296 · pith_short_12: ZJYZJGWD5ASR · pith_short_16: ZJYZJGWD5ASROHGA · pith_short_8: ZJYZJGWD

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/ZJYZJGWD5ASROHGAY3PENYE645 \
  | 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: ca71949ac3e825171cc0c6de46e09ee764591bb974f660edbb085a63773bf4f1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3a9629a09ff0cf72374f1381c85fd5f294bf9dbe59a65bf2f3ef0002176f9caa",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-06T17:18:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "25f84eac2fbfa0a91ddf9461650d62f99d5a30644f4d07bc6fd7d4f4270a24a4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.06296",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}