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pith:OBFWZHGW

pith:2020:OBFWZHGW7IYO4EJVRDHKF46PTZ

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Why distillation helps: a statistical perspective

Aditya Krishna Menon, Ankit Singh Rawat, Sanjiv Kumar, Sashank J. Reddi, Seungyeon Kim

arxiv:2005.10419 v1 · 2020-05-21 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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Scaling Laws for Task-Specific LLM Distillation

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First computed	2026-07-05T01:04:53.966470Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

704b6c9cd6fa30ee113588cea2f3cf9e57a815eb63fbf1a0a2d70f9d1f8b2c03

Aliases

arxiv: 2005.10419 · arxiv_version: 2005.10419v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2005.10419 · pith_short_12: OBFWZHGW7IYO · pith_short_16: OBFWZHGW7IYO4EJV · pith_short_8: OBFWZHGW

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/OBFWZHGW7IYO4EJVRDHKF46PTZ \
  | 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: 704b6c9cd6fa30ee113588cea2f3cf9e57a815eb63fbf1a0a2d70f9d1f8b2c03

Canonical record JSON

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      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2020-05-21T01:49:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ef3b1552cbc3b3f174485d14a97d4c81d250c2ba73bd5f888b6e9a46079aa2d7"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}