Pith Number

pith:BPVWIFB4

pith:2022:BPVWIFB4MBOOWE7VKUWAEW45LK

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The Optimal BERT Surgeon: Scalable and Accurate Second-Order Pruning for Large Language Models

Benjamin Fineran, Dan Alistarh, Daniel Campos, Eldar Kurtic, Elias Frantar, Mark Kurtz, Michael Goin, Tuan Nguyen

arxiv:2203.07259 v3 · 2022-03-14 · cs.CL · cs.LG

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First computed	2026-07-05T05:07:40.221411Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0beb64143c605ceb13f5552c025b9d5a966a640002d330512cda798c202c4a5c

Aliases

arxiv: 2203.07259 · arxiv_version: 2203.07259v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2203.07259 · pith_short_12: BPVWIFB4MBOO · pith_short_16: BPVWIFB4MBOOWE7V · pith_short_8: BPVWIFB4

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BPVWIFB4MBOOWE7VKUWAEW45LK \
  | 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: 0beb64143c605ceb13f5552c025b9d5a966a640002d330512cda798c202c4a5c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1737eb710dd74d76864695240920f25df0f27e9d4536b7d5ad66bd9e0017d67c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2022-03-14T16:40:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "755e7cdc1098cbd1f493caabdb1f7c0a0442d7434ff295381ae02692ef2a2ff7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2203.07259",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}