Ancient Text Restoration

Description from the archive archive 2025-07-28; Papers-with-Code links inside it are rewritten to this site.

Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

1 leaderboard table shown for this task, 1 with rows (a “benchmark” on this site is a table with at least one row, as on /sota), ordered by row count. “Best model” is the first row in the archive's own order at snapshot; nothing is re-ranked here and metric direction is not recorded in the archive. PwC's Trend sparklines are not in the archive, so that column is omitted.

Syntology column: samples harvested from the paper's repositories and executed on synthesized fixtures; “ran” is not a correctness claim and does not order the table. A dash means no Syntology record for that paper, not a recorded non-run. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.

Libraries

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Datasets archive 2025-07-28

1 dataset whose archive record lists this task, ordered by the archive's paper count.

Subtasks archive 2025-07-28

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Most implemented papers archive 2025-07-28

5 shown of 5 papers with code (6 tagged with this task in all), ordered by repositories listed in the archive, not by stars (the archive holds no stars, so PwC's “Social” and “Latest” sorts cannot be reproduced). Papers without a page here are shown as plain text.

• Restoring and attributing ancient texts using deep neural networks
  9 Mar 2022 2 repositories listed
  Ithaca can attribute inscriptions to their original location with an accuracy of 71% and can date them to less than 30 years of their ground-truth ranges, redating key texts of Classical Athens and contributing to…
• Restoring Ancient Ideograph: A Multimodal Multitask Neural Network Approach
  11 Mar 2024 1 repository listed
  Cultural heritage serves as the enduring record of human thought and history.
• Towards Probabilistically-Sound Beam Search with Masked Language Models
  22 Feb 2024 1 repository listed
  Beam search with masked language models (MLMs) is challenging in part because joint probability distributions over sequences are not readily available, unlike for autoregressive models.
• Blank Language Models
  8 Feb 2020 1 repository listed Syntology ran 1 of 8 samples · 7 unverified
  We propose Blank Language Model (BLM), a model that generates sequences by dynamically creating and filling in blanks.
• Restoring ancient text using deep learning: a case study on Greek epigraphy
  14 Oct 2019 1 repository listed Syntology ran 0 of 9 samples · 9 unverified
  Ancient history relies on disciplines such as epigraphy, the study of ancient inscribed texts, for evidence of the recorded past.

Syntology lines on 2 of the papers shown; no Syntology record for the others (a paper without an arXiv id cannot be joined to the graph, and absence from the graph layer is not a recorded non-run). “Ran” means the sample executed on a synthesized fixture, not that the paper's result was reproduced. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.