How many of the 150,000 fragments can still be rejoined, and how much context does rejoining recover for rare graphs?
One answer, none aheadNone is ahead yet. See what would settle it.
Where it stands
One answer has been proposed. None is ahead on the evidence yet. One is still possible.
Why it matters
About 90 percent of the 150,000 or so pieces are fragments, and a century of hand rejoining has produced several thousand joins recorded in databases such as Fudan's Zhuiyu lianzhu[1][2]. Deep-learning systems since 2020 rank candidate joins with 98.39 percent top-10 accuracy on known pairs, and platform tools have found about 500 duplicate rubbings, but the number of new joins confirmed by scholars from these systems is not published[3][4].
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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
—not judged
Ranked by how likely each is to move the key question, for the time it takes
History
- Chongsheng Zhang et al.: a 2020 deep-learning system ranked the correct join in its top 10 for 98.39 percent of held-out fragment pairs, and…For: Automated rejoining recovers context at scale
- Fang Aiqing: a 2020 deep-learning system ranked the correct join in its top 10 for 98.39 percent of held-out fragment pairs, and…For: Automated rejoining recovers context at scale
- Session 1: raised the question, proposed one answer and found one result bearing on its answers