Pith Number

pith:ZLJIVJZI

pith:2026:ZLJIVJZIQT5UDBUUIXMMCETSWV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Embedder's Dilemma: LLMs Are Better, but at What Cost?

Adnan El Assadi, Jinhyuk Lee, Niklas Muennighoff

arxiv:2608.12875 v1 · 2026-08-13 · cs.CL

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZLJIVJZIQT5UDBUUIXMMCETSWV}

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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	2026-08-14T00:49:31.053348Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cad28aa72884fb41869445d8c11272b57c1522383e33193fbbd6e5efe650db3c

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.12875 · arxiv_version: 2608.12875v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.12875 · pith_short_12: ZLJIVJZIQT5U · pith_short_16: ZLJIVJZIQT5UDBUU · pith_short_8: ZLJIVJZI

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/ZLJIVJZIQT5UDBUUIXMMCETSWV \
  | 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: cad28aa72884fb41869445d8c11272b57c1522383e33193fbbd6e5efe650db3c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fdc1ef5aabb8c6a9f58958eea4f5ef398d97b2a9c88c607756c5e67e2bbfea76",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-13T06:39:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a3f8dfc634e354eed7cf42ad44d8c7f95266d87ddeae97351e6322d048f40881"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.12875",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}