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pith:WY6BBASF

pith:2021:WY6BBASFJLOKSMDE2WBTRH7Y3S

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MergeDistill: Merging Pre-trained Language Models using Distillation

Melvin Johnson, Partha Talukdar, Simran Khanuja

arxiv:2106.02834 v1 · 2021-06-05 · cs.CL

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First computed	2026-07-05T02:46:30.703539Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b63c1082454adca93064d583389ff8dcb9d67ff571eb95246d223153e1329ba7

Aliases

arxiv: 2106.02834 · arxiv_version: 2106.02834v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2106.02834 · pith_short_12: WY6BBASFJLOK · pith_short_16: WY6BBASFJLOKSMDE · pith_short_8: WY6BBASF

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/WY6BBASFJLOKSMDE2WBTRH7Y3S \
  | 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: b63c1082454adca93064d583389ff8dcb9d67ff571eb95246d223153e1329ba7

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "efd8b93df8290e8cc472bf1c7d611a7e63cc26f5069154c74bd6e8fba3a797d9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2021-06-05T08:22:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a36fcc0e37edacd15b869ecac84527b9b4210406f946083a4ec47cf61141028b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2106.02834",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}