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pith:2026:QG7C3XJ4P35YVLRAAQZ2DTI25Y
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Logic Before Language: Pre-pretraining on Formal Derivations Fosters Skill Acquisition and Compressibility

Jo-Ku Cheng, Marco Valentino, Nikolaos Aletras

arxiv:2608.03930 v1 · 2026-08-04 · cs.CL · cs.AI · cs.LG

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First computed 2026-08-05T01:37:31.977968Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05) · public key
Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

81be2ddd3c7efb8aae200433a1cd1aee3763de19d4971dc06317f4f0f1c8ae49

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arxiv: 2608.03930 · arxiv_version: 2608.03930v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.03930 · pith_short_12: QG7C3XJ4P35Y · pith_short_16: QG7C3XJ4P35YVLRA · pith_short_8: QG7C3XJ4
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QG7C3XJ4P35YVLRAAQZ2DTI25Y \
  | 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: 81be2ddd3c7efb8aae200433a1cd1aee3763de19d4971dc06317f4f0f1c8ae49
Canonical record JSON
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    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-04T17:02:34Z",
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