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pith:2023:NXMSC7CR4YU3XWQ4SNJ55ZW3SO

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An Empirical Study of the Non-determinism of ChatGPT in Code Generation

Jie M. Zhang, Mark Harman, Meng Wang, Shuyin Ouyang

arxiv:2308.02828 v2 · 2023-08-05 · cs.SE

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Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
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6dd9217c51e629bbda1c9353dee6db93aafb78c37ce6ec420da6e4eaf3cb216c

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arxiv: 2308.02828 · arxiv_version: 2308.02828v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2308.02828 · pith_short_12: NXMSC7CR4YU3 · pith_short_16: NXMSC7CR4YU3XWQ4 · pith_short_8: NXMSC7CR

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NXMSC7CR4YU3XWQ4SNJ55ZW3SO \
  | 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: 6dd9217c51e629bbda1c9353dee6db93aafb78c37ce6ec420da6e4eaf3cb216c

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