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pith:YL2YPG66

pith:2024:YL2YPG66MYVTV7SID7VJBFZNFZ

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Why do small language models underperform? Studying Language Model Saturation via the Softmax Bottleneck

Beno\^it Sagot, \'Eric de la Clergerie, Nathan Godey

arxiv:2404.07647 v1 · 2024-04-11 · cs.CL

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First computed	2026-07-05T08:06:55.732394Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c2f5879bde662b3afe481fea90972d2e63c00b013dbfffddf683c69393efd741

Aliases

arxiv: 2404.07647 · arxiv_version: 2404.07647v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2404.07647 · pith_short_12: YL2YPG66MYVT · pith_short_16: YL2YPG66MYVTV7SI · pith_short_8: YL2YPG66

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/YL2YPG66MYVTV7SID7VJBFZNFZ \
  | 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: c2f5879bde662b3afe481fea90972d2e63c00b013dbfffddf683c69393efd741

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "41c42a14c5f378f3eafe25a399fb272cdb061bb3a6b68f129c630aa1e1d8978f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2024-04-11T11:10:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "def5209b67fdb90d8bd00ff2204abdc3cbe36cb9a627c126ff72bdbb0e97ee8e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2404.07647",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}