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pith:KA3ZNVIH

pith:2023:KA3ZNVIHDUASGGUWF42HUTHC55

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Do All Languages Cost the Same? Tokenization in the Era of Commercial Language Models

David R. Mortensen, Hila Gonen, Jungo Kasai, Noah A. Smith, Orevaoghene Ahia, Sachin Kumar, Yulia Tsvetkov

arxiv:2305.13707 v1 · 2023-05-23 · cs.CL

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Token-Efficient Multimodal Reasoning via Image Prompt Packaging

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First computed	2026-07-05T06:12:56.452660Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

503796d5071d01231a962f347a4ce2ef6564778f93bf3d5224cc1c7fa6b16e68

Aliases

arxiv: 2305.13707 · arxiv_version: 2305.13707v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2305.13707 · pith_short_12: KA3ZNVIHDUAS · pith_short_16: KA3ZNVIHDUASGGUW · pith_short_8: KA3ZNVIH

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/KA3ZNVIHDUASGGUWF42HUTHC55 \
  | 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: 503796d5071d01231a962f347a4ce2ef6564778f93bf3d5224cc1c7fa6b16e68

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2023-05-23T05:46:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1e5180bf224a8ad67cfa5623f106515e334f5b8eb117eda8c50e3b591701b6af"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2305.13707",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}