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pith:4C5HGHZ4

pith:2025:4C5HGHZ4DNVKU6C2ISYXFLDZMT

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From Tokens to Thoughts: How LLMs and Humans Trade Compression for Meaning

Chen Shani, Dan Jurafsky, Liron Soffer, Ravid Shwartz-Ziv, Yann LeCun

arxiv:2505.17117 v7 · 2025-05-21 · cs.CL · cs.AI · cs.IT · math.IT

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First computed	2026-08-20T01:21:39.510687Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e0ba731f3c1b6aaa785a44b172ac7964ebb32deeab9f75294962535514d9cd55

Aliases

arxiv: 2505.17117 · arxiv_version: 2505.17117v7 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.17117 · pith_short_12: 4C5HGHZ4DNVK · pith_short_16: 4C5HGHZ4DNVKU6C2 · pith_short_8: 4C5HGHZ4

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4C5HGHZ4DNVKU6C2ISYXFLDZMT \
  | 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: e0ba731f3c1b6aaa785a44b172ac7964ebb32deeab9f75294962535514d9cd55

Canonical record JSON

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      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2025-05-21T16:29:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4ef52d131b598229c75bf2039b9909d75852888c6515c4101bb5bf96e5da5a93"
  },
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  }
}