Pith Number

pith:IBNWRTBG

pith:2024:IBNWRTBGZCMTOMJ5O2U67BX2EM

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Collapse or Thrive? Perils and Promises of Synthetic Data in a Self-Generating World

Apratim Dey, David L. Donoho, Joshua Kazdan, Matthias Gerstgrasser, Rafael Rafailov, Rylan Schaeffer, Sanmi Koyejo

arxiv:2410.16713 v4 · 2024-10-22 · cs.LG · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IBNWRTBGZCMTOMJ5O2U67BX2EM}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T10:33:06.025943Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

405b68cc26c89937313d76a9ef86fa2333d3df6febd848b00cada4dce765cd22

Aliases

arxiv: 2410.16713 · arxiv_version: 2410.16713v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2410.16713 · pith_short_12: IBNWRTBGZCMT · pith_short_16: IBNWRTBGZCMTOMJ5 · pith_short_8: IBNWRTBG

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/IBNWRTBGZCMTOMJ5O2U67BX2EM \
  | 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: 405b68cc26c89937313d76a9ef86fa2333d3df6febd848b00cada4dce765cd22

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8c57cfbf9431e29cb3275dd3040705f8c603657ea11d99975494fdc22b9c515c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2024-10-22T05:49:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a030a9130daceadc32aca50f50afa280954ff6ac4ce12854359ef27d93310d38"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2410.16713",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}