Pith Number

pith:LTKIMPFT

pith:2022:LTKIMPFTNKITLDIZ52QQGLPUUH

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Language models are better than humans at next-token prediction

Buck Shlegeris, Euan McLean, Fabien Roger, Lawrence Chan

arxiv:2212.11281 v2 · 2022-12-21 · cs.CL · cs.AI · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LTKIMPFTNKITLDIZ52QQGLPUUH}

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First computed	2026-07-05T08:43:49.088051Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5cd4863cb36a91358d19eea1032df4a1e3d42977adb8fa81ffa471ece8510678

Aliases

arxiv: 2212.11281 · arxiv_version: 2212.11281v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2212.11281 · pith_short_12: LTKIMPFTNKIT · pith_short_16: LTKIMPFTNKITLDIZ · pith_short_8: LTKIMPFT

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LTKIMPFTNKITLDIZ52QQGLPUUH \
  | 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: 5cd4863cb36a91358d19eea1032df4a1e3d42977adb8fa81ffa471ece8510678

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2022-12-21T17:58:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9d6bb5f8bf894b68f912096da69701e701c35602057d4db9850e4668b395dc63"
  },
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  "source": {
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  }
}