Pith Number

pith:6QJWXCMA

pith:2026:6QJWXCMAYVREY2MEXPSWUVWCZE

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Scale Determines Whether Language Models Organize Representation Geometry for Prediction

Weilun Xu

arxiv:2605.17084 v1 · 2026-05-16 · cs.LG · cs.CL

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\pithnumber{6QJWXCMAYVREY2MEXPSWUVWCZE}

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First computed	2026-05-20T00:03:39.568786Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f4136b8980c5624c6984bbe56a56c2c93fef7fa98d0a6d897b0ffd8383078d64

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.17084 · arxiv_version: 2605.17084v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.17084 · pith_short_12: 6QJWXCMAYVRE · pith_short_16: 6QJWXCMAYVREY2ME · pith_short_8: 6QJWXCMA

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6QJWXCMAYVREY2MEXPSWUVWCZE \
  | 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: f4136b8980c5624c6984bbe56a56c2c93fef7fa98d0a6d897b0ffd8383078d64

Canonical record JSON

{
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-16T17:01:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5e5ac31f5da0330896a2c6941edec93177dfa0778471e13d734fbc7981d228f1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.17084",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}