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pith:45X6G64L

pith:2025:45X6G64LUGH3QRLGAB6CMWGW4I

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Learning to Skip the Middle Layers of Transformers

Laurence Aitchison, Tim Lawson

arxiv:2506.21103 v1 · 2025-06-26 · cs.LG · cs.CL

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:27:40.164323Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

e76fe37b8ba18fb84566007c2658d6e21e5949558eb3bbfab9a930afc31dfd30

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arxiv: 2506.21103 · arxiv_version: 2506.21103v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.21103 · pith_short_12: 45X6G64LUGH3 · pith_short_16: 45X6G64LUGH3QRLG · pith_short_8: 45X6G64L

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/45X6G64LUGH3QRLGAB6CMWGW4I \
  | 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: e76fe37b8ba18fb84566007c2658d6e21e5949558eb3bbfab9a930afc31dfd30

Canonical record JSON

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    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2025-06-26T09:01:19Z",
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