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What is that "this http URL" thing in the first sentence of the abstract?

Is this slob?




Bad auto-URL-extraction, presumably. The PDF reads:

> Large language models (LLMs) for code have become indispensable in various domains, including code generation, reasoning tasks and agent systems. While open-access code LLMs are increasingly approaching the performance levels of proprietary models,

"systems.while" is obviously not a valid domain.


while.systems


arXiv replaces any URL in the text of the abstract with a link with text "this http url"; it seems the authors did not know this and just embedded a bare URL in their abstract.


I think it mistook a typo that didn't add a space after a sentence.


I think this is the relevant code:

    TLDS = "[a-z][a-z]+" 
https://github.com/arXiv/arxiv-base/blob/develop/arxiv/base/...

A more restrictive TLD list would have prevented this, but I certainly don't want to be the one to add new TLDs all the time, so I can see why the code looks like it does.


Mozilla has a list, https://publicsuffix.org/list/, relatively easy to update. I'm sure there is some Python wrapper library they could use.




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