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pith:G6CRPDKX

pith:2025:G6CRPDKX33VZWINZSRWTRPYAJK

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DataDecide: How to Predict Best Pretraining Data with Small Experiments

Akshita Bhagia, Ben Bogin, David Heineman, Dirk Groeneveld, Ian Magnusson, Jena D. Hwang, Jesse Dodge, Jiacheng Liu, Luca Soldaini, Nguyen Tai, Noah A. Smith, Oyvind Tafjord, Pang Wei Koh

arxiv:2504.11393 v2 · 2025-04-15 · cs.LG · cs.CL

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:36:30.849080Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

3785178d57deeb9b21b9946d38bf004a91877bc7691878a6cdce86c6de1b798d

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arxiv: 2504.11393 · arxiv_version: 2504.11393v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2504.11393 · pith_short_12: G6CRPDKX33VZ · pith_short_16: G6CRPDKX33VZWINZ · pith_short_8: G6CRPDKX

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/G6CRPDKX33VZWINZSRWTRPYAJK \
  | 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: 3785178d57deeb9b21b9946d38bf004a91877bc7691878a6cdce86c6de1b798d

Canonical record JSON

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    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2025-04-15T17:02:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "aab4e6e8dcc9f196241bb78e2d3d7b4c42f0d8f371e3b497f14dbb108ba4c641"
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