Pith Number

pith:3V5JCZQA

pith:2024:3V5JCZQABY5KTTGSA4S2PHAJGN

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Better Explain Transformers by Illuminating Important Information

Ao Luo, Freddy Lecue, Irene Li, Linxin Song, Yan Cui

arxiv:2401.09972 v3 · 2024-01-18 · cs.CL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3V5JCZQABY5KTTGSA4S2PHAJGN}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-07-05T07:37:55.280928Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dd7a9166000e3aa9ccd20725a79c0933782d6373da274a33502e26ef36c8ef8b

Aliases

arxiv: 2401.09972 · arxiv_version: 2401.09972v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2401.09972 · pith_short_12: 3V5JCZQABY5K · pith_short_16: 3V5JCZQABY5KTTGS · pith_short_8: 3V5JCZQA

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/3V5JCZQABY5KTTGSA4S2PHAJGN \
  | 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: dd7a9166000e3aa9ccd20725a79c0933782d6373da274a33502e26ef36c8ef8b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fc8a9cda49c1b070c2c7e2a8e3d5ad741776a2abf91c1071b28c4c2a50a98614",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2024-01-18T13:41:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "abd0ac9356422b996bbf298b1bea6804906d92ac2a7bb6c51094e1cd0ad7b629"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2401.09972",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}