# A 2020 deep-learning system ranked the correct join in its top 10 for 98.39 percent of held-out fragment pairs, and…

> A 2020 deep-learning system ranked the correct join in its top 10 for 98.39 percent of held-out fragment pairs, and platform tools have since found about…

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# A 2020 deep-learning system ranked the correct join in its top 10 for 98.39 percent of held-out fragment pairs, and…

A 2020 deep-learning system ranked the correct join in its top 10 for 98.39 percent of held-out fragment pairs, and platform tools have since found about 500 duplicate rubbings.

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## What it means

Key question[How many of the 150,000 fragments can still be rejoined, and how much context does rejoining recover for rare graphs?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/questions/QST0DEDQG2AZ12C/how-many-of-the-150-000-fragments-can-still-be-rejoined-and)

No answer ahead yet

**Open** was No evidence yet

Answer this evidence bears on[Automated rejoining recovers context at scale](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/answers/ANS0DEDS4CYCRZY/automated-rejoining-recovers-context-at-scale)

Supports1 for, none against

**Still possible** unchanged

## Next steps 1

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Watch for the results of the 2025 Anyang AI competition (due late October 2025) and record the number of algorithm-proposed joins confirmed by palaeographers.

~3 h

[On: How many of the 150,000 fragments can still be rejoined, and how much context does rejoining recover for rare graphs?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/questions/QST0DEDQG2AZ12C/how-many-of-the-150-000-fragments-can-still-be-rejoined-and)

**—** not judged

Ranked by how likely each is to move the key question, for the time it takes

## Sources 2

[AI-Powered Oracle Bone Inscriptions Recognition and Fragments Rejoining](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDGQZJF41K/ai-powered-oracle-bone-inscriptions-recognition-and)

Zhang et al. 2020

SRC

[Race on to decipher oracle bone characters with AI](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDH7SYE3A5/race-on-to-decipher-oracle-bone-characters-with-ai)

Aiqing 2025

SRC

## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). A 2020 deep-learning system ranked the correct join in its top 10 for 98.39 percent of held-out fragment pairs, and… [Evidence EVD0DEDTM293ZBW]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEDTM293ZBW
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[Session 1](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/sessions/SES0DEDVWXKJN4C/session-1-the-unread-oracle-bone-characters-seeded-corpus) · 31 Oct 2026

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