Pith Number

pith:2MPMVH6V

pith:2025:2MPMVH6VCLKGYCUOZDMZ3PTGPZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Transformers are Inherently Succinct

Anthony W. Lin, Pascal Bergstr\"a{\ss}er, Ryan Cotterell

arxiv:2510.19315 v3 · 2025-10-22 · cs.FL · cs.LG · cs.LO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2MPMVH6VCLKGYCUOZDMZ3PTGPZ}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-20T00:00:26.429720Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d31eca9fd512d46c0a8ec8d99dbe667e4d2506c9792e65efe84918c5ae3b9608

Aliases

arxiv: 2510.19315 · arxiv_version: 2510.19315v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2510.19315 · pith_short_12: 2MPMVH6VCLKG · pith_short_16: 2MPMVH6VCLKGYCUO · pith_short_8: 2MPMVH6V

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/2MPMVH6VCLKGYCUOZDMZ3PTGPZ \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: d31eca9fd512d46c0a8ec8d99dbe667e4d2506c9792e65efe84918c5ae3b9608

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "511e6b81b1a78900541cac53631a87a13b2e7929b0e0a0fe2736e5ce4a07e912",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "cs.LO"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.FL",
    "submitted_at": "2025-10-22T07:25:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "57bc3d9acd79e9b34e658b6059d4a44d093a5b7f7658009e412d750586b92afd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2510.19315",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}