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pith:44YNW4AQ

pith:2022:44YNW4AQY354UKAFU3FVRUPV4C

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Knowledge Distillation: Bad Models Can Be Good Role Models

Eran Malach, Gal Kaplun, Preetum Nakkiran, Shai Shalev-Shwartz

arxiv:2203.14649 v1 · 2022-03-28 · cs.LG · cs.AI · stat.ML

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First computed	2026-07-05T04:09:07.389547Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e730db7010c6fbca2805a6cb58d1f5e0bf9ae9068d43df79081552f311992a26

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arxiv: 2203.14649 · arxiv_version: 2203.14649v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2203.14649 · pith_short_12: 44YNW4AQY354 · pith_short_16: 44YNW4AQY354UKAF · pith_short_8: 44YNW4AQ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/44YNW4AQY354UKAFU3FVRUPV4C \
  | 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: e730db7010c6fbca2805a6cb58d1f5e0bf9ae9068d43df79081552f311992a26

Canonical record JSON

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    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2022-03-28T11:13:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "778a5f43669e26a4203daaca425ad92181045204259c1525eee8f2b5df910b60"
  },
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  }
}