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$\approx$10M parameters) that \textbf{beats Sadeed on
SadeedDiac-25 with Misraj's own evaluator}: 3.25\% DER (CE) /
1.81\% (w/o CE) vs 7.29\% / 5.26\%, at 1/150th the parameters;
a 580M ByT5-base extends this to 2.81\% / 1.69\%,
a 580M ByT5-base~\cite{byt5} extends this to 2.81\% / 1.69\%,
beating Gemini-Flash-2.0 on all four metrics under a zero-skip
windowed protocol.
\item A data ablation showing in-domain DER falls 2.42\% $\rightarrow$ 0.99\% as
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The same benchmark disciplines a 300M distilled student shipped for
browser/edge inference. From the 1.0 rung (8.26\%), a pre-registered
lever ladder reached \textbf{4.82\%} (42\% error reduction at
identical architecture and artifact size): the Muon optimizer alone
identical architecture and artifact size): the Muon optimizer~\cite{muon} alone
contributes $-2.96$pp (a controlled 2$\times$2 factorial closes
additively: optimizer $-2.96$, memory-layer capacity $-0.70$,
combined $-3.43$), fresher r7 teacher labels $-0.47$pp, and longer
training a further $-0.25$pp (4.57\%). Four registered negatives
bracket the ladder: multi-token-prediction as a training auxiliary
bracket the ladder: multi-token-prediction~\cite{mtp} as a training auxiliary
scored 5.09\% ($+0.26$pp vs control, with a disclosed preemption
confound); swapping news-domain training units for classical
Tashkeela at constant budget scored 5.81\% ($+0.98$pp); adding
18k classical units on top at matched epochs scored 4.82\%---flat
against the 3-epoch control and 0.25pp behind news-only training at
the same epochs, the add canceling the epoch gain entirely; and
on-policy generalized distillation (reverse-KL on student-sampled
on-policy generalized distillation~\cite{gkd} (reverse-KL on student-sampled
sequences scored by the frozen teacher) scored 6.00\% ($+1.18$pp,
the worst rung measured)---the domain-coverage hypothesis failing
in every direction it was tested. Together with the RL negatives,
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G2P the best checkpoint \emph{lost} 2 points on SentenceBench
homographs (77.34$\to$75.37\%), with dev reward degrading
monotonically past step 200.
\item \textbf{GTPO-GRPO} (entropy-weighted per-token credit,
arXiv:2508.04349; graded alignment-based reward): dev curve
\item \textbf{GTPO-GRPO} (entropy-weighted per-token
credit~\cite{gtpo}; graded alignment-based reward): dev curve
\emph{exactly} flat (5.9692\% at steps 0/100/150); the final
benchmark equals the teacher within protocol noise.
\end{itemize}
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\begin{thebibliography}{9}
\bibitem{sadeed} Sadeed: Arabic Diacritization. arXiv:2504.21635, 2025.
\bibitem{byt5} Xue et al. ByT5: Towards a token-free future with pre-trained byte-to-byte models. TACL, 2022. arXiv:2105.13626.
\bibitem{muon} Liu et al. Muon is Scalable for LLM Training. arXiv:2502.16982, 2025.
\bibitem{mtp} Gloeckle et al. Better \& Faster Large Language Models via Multi-token Prediction. arXiv:2404.19737, 2024.
\bibitem{gkd} Agarwal et al. On-Policy Distillation of Language Models: Learning from Self-Generated Mistakes. ICLR, 2024. arXiv:2306.13649.
\bibitem{gtpo} Tan et al. GTPO and GRPO-S: Token and Sequence-Level Reward Shaping with Policy Entropy. arXiv:2508.04349, 2025.
\end{thebibliography}

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ACL-2020 test corpora the same model is strong across modern, poetry,
and rabbinic line-level registers (0.52/0.24/0.45 DER), localizing the
weak surface specifically to paragraph-level Biblical text---register
coverage, not a general modern-text gap; we note D-Nikud, the recent
coverage, not a general modern-text gap; we note D-Nikud~\cite{dnikud}, the recent
open TavBERT+Bi-LSTM system, publishes no numbers on these corpora.
Error analysis shows the vowel-pointing accuracy of our model at
aligned positions is 97.1\%,
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\begin{thebibliography}{9}
\bibitem{dictabert} DictaBERT-large-char-menaked. Dicta, 2023--2024.
\bibitem{nakdimon} Elazar et al. Nakdimon. 2020.
\bibitem{byt5} Xue et al. ByT5: Towards a Token-Free Future. 2022.
\bibitem{nakdimon} Elazar Gershuni and Yuval Pinter. Restoring Hebrew
Diacritics Without a Dictionary (Nakdimon). Findings of NAACL, 2022.
arXiv:2105.05209.
\bibitem{byt5} Xue et al. ByT5: Towards a token-free future with
pre-trained byte-to-byte models. TACL, 2022. arXiv:2105.13626.
\bibitem{dnikud} Adi Rosenthal and Nadav Shaked. D-Nikud: Enhancing
Hebrew Diacritization with LSTM and Pretrained Models. arXiv:2402.00075,
2024.
\end{thebibliography}

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vocalization that makes interscript.org's maps deterministic.

\section{System and results}
Common framework: ByT5 seq2seq (byte-level; tokenizer = UTF-8 bytes, so
Common framework: ByT5~\cite{byt5} seq2seq (byte-level; tokenizer = UTF-8 bytes, so
TS inference needs no vocabulary assets) except Arabic, where a compact
30M char-level encoder won on cost.

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\toprule
Language & Task & Result & Published reference \\
\midrule
Arabic & diacritization & \textbf{2.29/1.33\% DER} & Sadeed 7.29/5.26\%, Gemini 3.19/2.38\%, GLM-5.3-Flash 8.80 (same benchmark+evaluator) \\
Hebrew & diacritization & \textbf{16.43\% DER} (Biblical) & DictaBERT 35.6\% (same test) \\
Arabic & diacritization & \textbf{2.29/1.33\% DER} & Sadeed~\cite{sadeed} 7.29/5.26\%, Gemini 3.19/2.38\%, GLM-5.3-Flash 8.80 (same benchmark+evaluator) \\
Hebrew & diacritization & \textbf{16.43\% DER} (Biblical) & DictaBERT~\cite{dictabert} 35.6\% (same test) \\
Thai & G2P & \textbf{2.32\% PER} & baseline 6.37\% (same test) \\
Persian & G2P/HA & \textbf{89.5\%} / 77.3\% (SB) & Homo-GE2PE 76.9\% \\
Persian & diacritization & \textbf{0.52\% CER} & (none existed) \\
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evaluation harnesses, \texttt{docs/RESULTS.md} ground truth, and the
five companion papers in \texttt{docs/paper-*/}.

\begin{thebibliography}{9}
\bibitem{sadeed} Sadeed: Arabic Diacritization. arXiv:2504.21635, 2025.
\bibitem{byt5} Xue et al. ByT5: Towards a token-free future with
pre-trained byte-to-byte models. TACL, 2022. arXiv:2105.13626.
\bibitem{dictabert} DictaBERT-large-char-menaked. Dicta, 2023--2024.
\end{thebibliography}

\end{document}