Pith Number

pith:HEST645V

pith:2020:HEST645VO3T7B32DIDGQMEM3QL

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Byte Pair Encoding is Suboptimal for Language Model Pretraining

Greg Durrett, Kaj Bostrom

arxiv:2004.03720 v2 · 2020-04-07 · cs.CL

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First computed	2026-07-05T01:40:17.265654Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

39253f73b576e7f0ef4340cd06119b82f6980e4527073e667894add414d233d9

Aliases

arxiv: 2004.03720 · arxiv_version: 2004.03720v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2004.03720 · pith_short_12: HEST645VO3T7 · pith_short_16: HEST645VO3T7B32D · pith_short_8: HEST645V

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/HEST645VO3T7B32DIDGQMEM3QL \
  | 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: 39253f73b576e7f0ef4340cd06119b82f6980e4527073e667894add414d233d9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "44be804fc1905e2fc90800b42ba36f3537d86af3b704e0afa215ae7b1eafe2b5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2020-04-07T21:21:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ad254bfe2d5e8f58e712922c7f0411d020905e951a0eb1a7f0b6548d714ca9d7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2004.03720",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}