Pith Number

pith:JF66CJ74

pith:2025:JF66CJ74JJVBUZI7CMYVC3DRA7

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Train It and Forget It: Merge Lists are Unnecessary for BPE Inference in Language Models

Kartik Goyal, Tomohiro Sawada

arxiv:2508.06621 v1 · 2025-08-08 · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JF66CJ74JJVBUZI7CMYVC3DRA7}

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T11:51:03.674631Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

497de127fc4a6a1a651f1331516c7107c04fb7337e9ae9994e1a550f885f1a6f

Aliases

arxiv: 2508.06621 · arxiv_version: 2508.06621v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2508.06621 · pith_short_12: JF66CJ74JJVB · pith_short_16: JF66CJ74JJVBUZI7 · pith_short_8: JF66CJ74

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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/JF66CJ74JJVBUZI7CMYVC3DRA7 \
  | 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: 497de127fc4a6a1a651f1331516c7107c04fb7337e9ae9994e1a550f885f1a6f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c26c76d7289f1637589d4c80d5803185e392ea76957d4aa17062d8cd22f31478",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2025-08-08T18:10:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f8f55e9276f9cb774334c35f0054bbadebcad618e42c3c24613b72c049c9434a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2508.06621",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}