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CITATION.cff

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 cff-version: 1.2.0
-message: "Please cite the API-TAIL manuscript when using this research code."
+message: "Please cite the API-TAIL paper when using this research code."
 title: "API-TAIL"
 type: software
 version: 0.1.1
@@ -8,9 +8,11 @@ repository-code: "https://github.com/TokenRhythm/API-TAIL"
 authors:
   - name: "TokenRhythm Technologies"
 preferred-citation:
-  type: unpublished
+  type: article
   title: "API-TAIL: Detecting Model Substitution in LLM APIs through Temperature-Aligned Likelihood Tails"
   authors:
     - name: "TokenRhythm Technologies"
   year: 2026
-  notes: "Unpublished manuscript; no arXiv identifier has been assigned."
+  journal: "arXiv preprint arXiv:2610.36801"
+  doi: "10.48550/arXiv.2610.36801"
+  url: "https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.36801"

README.md

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 # API-TAIL
 
-[中文](README.zh-CN.md) · [Audit walkthrough](docs/QUICKSTART.md) · [Data formats](docs/SCHEMAS.md) · [Validation](docs/VALIDATION_REPORT.md)
+[![arXiv](https://img.shields.io/badge/arXiv-2610.36801-b31b1b.svg?logo=arxiv&logoColor=white)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.36801)
+
+[中文](README.zh-CN.md) · [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.36801) · [Audit walkthrough](docs/QUICKSTART.md) · [Data formats](docs/SCHEMAS.md) · [Validation](docs/VALIDATION_REPORT.md)
 
 **Version 0.1.1.** API-TAIL detects possible model substitution in LLM APIs by scoring responses with the claimed reference model and calibrating over allowed decoding configurations.
 
@@ -105,13 +107,16 @@ The [validation report](docs/VALIDATION_REPORT.md) records 78 passing tests with
 
 Code and the included numerical statistics use [Apache-2.0](LICENSE), copyright TokenRhythm Technologies. Model weights and original prompt/response text are separate assets; their terms are described in [ASSETS.md](docs/ASSETS.md).
 
-The paper is an unpublished manuscript without an arXiv identifier. [CITATION.cff](CITATION.cff) contains its citation metadata.
+The paper is available on arXiv as [arXiv:2610.36801](https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.36801). If you use API-TAIL, please cite it; [CITATION.cff](CITATION.cff) contains the same citation metadata.
 
 ```bibtex
-@unpublished{tokenrhythm2026apitail,
+@misc{tokenrhythm2026apitail,
   author = {{TokenRhythm Technologies}},
   title = {{API-TAIL}: Detecting Model Substitution in {LLM APIs} through Temperature-Aligned Likelihood Tails},
   year = {2026},
-  note = {Unpublished manuscript}
+  eprint = {2610.36801},
+  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
+  primaryClass = {cs.LG},
+  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.36801}
 }
 ```

README.zh-CN.md

@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 # API-TAIL
 
-[English](README.md) · [实际审计指南](docs/QUICKSTART.md) · [数据格式](docs/SCHEMAS.md) · [验证结果](docs/VALIDATION_REPORT.md)
+[![arXiv](https://img.shields.io/badge/arXiv-2610.36801-b31b1b.svg?logo=arxiv&logoColor=white)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.36801)
+
+[English](README.md) · [论文](https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.36801) · [实际审计指南](docs/QUICKSTART.md) · [数据格式](docs/SCHEMAS.md) · [验证结果](docs/VALIDATION_REPORT.md)
 
 **当前版本：0.1.1。** API-TAIL 用于检测 LLM API 可能存在的模型替换：使用声明的参考模型为回复评分，并在允许的解码配置范围内校准检测阈值。
 
@@ -105,13 +107,16 @@ py -3 -m venv .venv
 
 代码及随包提供的数值统计量采用 [Apache-2.0](LICENSE)，版权人为 TokenRhythm Technologies。模型权重和原始提示/回复文本是独立资产，其获取与许可范围见[资产说明](docs/ASSETS.md)。
 
-论文目前为未发表手稿，尚无 arXiv 编号；引用元数据见 [CITATION.cff](CITATION.cff)。
+论文已发布在 arXiv：[arXiv:2610.36801](https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.36801)。使用 API-TAIL 时请引用该论文；[CITATION.cff](CITATION.cff) 中有相同的引用元数据。
 
 ```bibtex
-@unpublished{tokenrhythm2026apitail,
+@misc{tokenrhythm2026apitail,
   author = {{TokenRhythm Technologies}},
   title = {{API-TAIL}: Detecting Model Substitution in {LLM APIs} through Temperature-Aligned Likelihood Tails},
   year = {2026},
-  note = {Unpublished manuscript}
+  eprint = {2610.36801},
+  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
+  primaryClass = {cs.LG},
+  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.36801}
 }
 ```

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