Pith Number

pith:XGZE3NZ2

pith:2026:XGZE3NZ2HMWGRMH5YC3JLCWLPE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Before and After Temperature: A Distributional View of Creative LLM Generation

Aditi Kaushal, Harsha Ponnada, Sahiti Bulusu, Saiteja Dasari, S. Shria Parupudi, V. S. Raghu Parupudi

arxiv:2606.01451 v1 · 2026-05-31 · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XGZE3NZ2HMWGRMH5YC3JLCWLPE}

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Record completeness

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-06-02T02:04:33.417446Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b9b24db73a3b2c68b0fdc0b6958acb7902223341d27e56439f2b18a9b47464d5

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.01451 · arxiv_version: 2606.01451v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.01451 · pith_short_12: XGZE3NZ2HMWG · pith_short_16: XGZE3NZ2HMWGRMH5 · pith_short_8: XGZE3NZ2

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/XGZE3NZ2HMWGRMH5YC3JLCWLPE \
  | 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: b9b24db73a3b2c68b0fdc0b6958acb7902223341d27e56439f2b18a9b47464d5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "17a965fae0d4de2b3f0d33075f1439e3bf79013d4cac52d23d5063c4ef7be972",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-31T21:13:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4d87d422932b631f69300120e86f1464f036a8df81c4f67940f5ef86d65492c1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.01451",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}