Pith Number

pith:H7CWFKRW

pith:2024:H7CWFKRWBD6T2IX6BF7MFJXHAV

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From Language Models over Tokens to Language Models over Characters

Ben LeBrun, Brian DuSell, John Terilla, Juan Luis Gastaldi, Mario Giulianelli, Ryan Cotterell, Timothy J. O'Donnell, Tim Vieira

arxiv:2412.03719 v2 · 2024-12-04 · cs.CL · cs.AI

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\pithnumber{H7CWFKRWBD6T2IX6BF7MFJXHAV}

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T11:18:40.733947Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3fc562aa3608fd3d22fe097ec2a6e7055539c9031303812b55742d8c2d110a70

Aliases

arxiv: 2412.03719 · arxiv_version: 2412.03719v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2412.03719 · pith_short_12: H7CWFKRWBD6T · pith_short_16: H7CWFKRWBD6T2IX6 · pith_short_8: H7CWFKRW

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/H7CWFKRWBD6T2IX6BF7MFJXHAV \
  | 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: 3fc562aa3608fd3d22fe097ec2a6e7055539c9031303812b55742d8c2d110a70

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8ddd65d75f382e55e4c592a3430491368b0313032bfa13f02f7e6e5ff1345adc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2024-12-04T21:19:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b7cc6bd1590fc7f601dd4e6d1f43ce1acc6ee602fddf274ab2b4312820d87fd9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2412.03719",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}