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pith:2021:BBXXMWQOM5BJRVRQXEXCPJGXF7

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Rethinking Network Pruning -- under the Pre-train and Fine-tune Paradigm

Dongkuan Xu, Ian E.H. Yen, Jinxi Zhao, Zhibin Xiao

arxiv:2104.08682 v2 · 2021-04-18 · cs.CL · cs.AI

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First computed	2026-07-05T03:48:40.792136Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

086f765a0e674298d630b92e27a4d72fd23112585b193b87245ab1c60cd37d9c

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arxiv: 2104.08682 · arxiv_version: 2104.08682v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2104.08682 · pith_short_12: BBXXMWQOM5BJ · pith_short_16: BBXXMWQOM5BJRVRQ · pith_short_8: BBXXMWQO

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BBXXMWQOM5BJRVRQXEXCPJGXF7 \
  | 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: 086f765a0e674298d630b92e27a4d72fd23112585b193b87245ab1c60cd37d9c

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    "submitted_at": "2021-04-18T02:20:37Z",
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