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pith:UR2GHQGH

pith:2024:UR2GHQGHRTWLL5IOM4E5XOSKDJ

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The pitfalls of next-token prediction

Gregor Bachmann, Vaishnavh Nagarajan

arxiv:2403.06963 v3 · 2024-03-11 · cs.CL · cs.AI · cs.LG

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:44:39.126196Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a47463c0c78cecb5f50e6709dbba4a1a462462f01283854ad36fa60705dd7514

Aliases

arxiv: 2403.06963 · arxiv_version: 2403.06963v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2403.06963 · pith_short_12: UR2GHQGHRTWL · pith_short_16: UR2GHQGHRTWLL5IO · pith_short_8: UR2GHQGH

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/UR2GHQGHRTWLL5IOM4E5XOSKDJ \
  | 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: a47463c0c78cecb5f50e6709dbba4a1a462462f01283854ad36fa60705dd7514

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": "2024-03-11T17:47:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3e4a126aa36643595acb39a19e6c9e7b98061285a3fda46fca62ec09833e39a9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2403.06963",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}