Pith Number

pith:LJEO4HHJ

pith:2025:LJEO4HHJLYGYEVZROBPZV7TLMX

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Language Models over Canonical Byte-Pair Encodings

Benjamin Lebrun, Brian DuSell, Clemente Pasti, Juan Luis Gastaldi, Mario Giulianelli, Ryan Cotterell, Tianyu Liu, Timothy J. O'Donnell, Tim Vieira, Yahya Emara

arxiv:2506.07956 v1 · 2025-06-09 · cs.CL · cs.FL · cs.LG

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\pithnumber{LJEO4HHJLYGYEVZROBPZV7TLMX}

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:18:36.033126Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5a48ee1ce95e0d825731705f9afe6b65daae3e6adec477616c2a87de4c8f208d

Aliases

arxiv: 2506.07956 · arxiv_version: 2506.07956v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.07956 · pith_short_12: LJEO4HHJLYGY · pith_short_16: LJEO4HHJLYGYEVZR · pith_short_8: LJEO4HHJ

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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/LJEO4HHJLYGYEVZROBPZV7TLMX \
  | 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: 5a48ee1ce95e0d825731705f9afe6b65daae3e6adec477616c2a87de4c8f208d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c5909f5b7ce1981d10250c807e33fbffedcdc7756ca33dc26c85a28907341181",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.FL",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2025-06-09T17:26:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "34b89823c76c1d2556551c84f06cb8e86c05d142e6878586a2c2acf89661bea5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2506.07956",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}