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pith:2019:RWZNSQPCB5RPNHWPA5STL4FYYK

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Well-Read Students Learn Better: On the Importance of Pre-training Compact Models

Iulia Turc, Kenton Lee, Kristina Toutanova, Ming-Wei Chang

arxiv:1908.08962 v2 · 2019-08-23 · cs.CL

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arxiv: 1908.08962 · arxiv_version: 1908.08962v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1908.08962 · pith_short_12: RWZNSQPCB5RP · pith_short_16: RWZNSQPCB5RPNHWP · pith_short_8: RWZNSQPC

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RWZNSQPCB5RPNHWPA5STL4FYYK \
  | 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())"
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