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pith:LEFTQQMV

pith:2024:LEFTQQMVBJPC32VVPZSKS7K3KK

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The Role of $n$-gram Smoothing in the Age of Neural Networks

Afra Amini, Andrius Buinovskij, Anej Svete, Clara Meister, Luca Malagutti, Ryan Cotterell

arxiv:2403.17240 v2 · 2024-03-25 · cs.CL

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First computed	2026-07-05T08:14:04.897520Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

590b3841950a5e2deab57e64a97d5b52870adfe9ae37359d34065f1ffe2dd9b9

Aliases

arxiv: 2403.17240 · arxiv_version: 2403.17240v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2403.17240 · pith_short_12: LEFTQQMVBJPC · pith_short_16: LEFTQQMVBJPC32VV · pith_short_8: LEFTQQMV

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LEFTQQMVBJPC32VVPZSKS7K3KK \
  | 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: 590b3841950a5e2deab57e64a97d5b52870adfe9ae37359d34065f1ffe2dd9b9

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6a7d55ad89d073f3969dde4bd962b3dc045e79e59ad31b15e73ac2a9489fb052",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2024-03-25T22:42:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3d9e9fefea4bfbedd12e5c757ef00b2490a772a556b5182fabab8ba14b0a05cb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2403.17240",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}