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pith:ALKCTMJH

pith:2026:ALKCTMJHYGUKXWCJCG5CX6BBAR

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Gated Normalization Removal and Scale Anchoring in Pre-Norm Transformers

Andrei Kanavalau, Carmen Amo Alonso, Sanjay Lall

arxiv:2602.10408 v2 · 2026-02-11 · cs.LG · cs.CL

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\pithnumber{ALKCTMJHYGUKXWCJCG5CX6BBAR}

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When Does Removing LayerNorm Help? Activation Bounding as a Regime-Dependent Implicit Regularizer

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First computed	2026-05-21T01:04:22.896796Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

02d429b127c1a8abd84911ba2bf82104777a5b51d9467997ec54db15228ad671

Aliases

arxiv: 2602.10408 · arxiv_version: 2602.10408v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2602.10408 · pith_short_12: ALKCTMJHYGUK · pith_short_16: ALKCTMJHYGUKXWCJ · pith_short_8: ALKCTMJH

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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/ALKCTMJHYGUKXWCJCG5CX6BBAR \
  | 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: 02d429b127c1a8abd84911ba2bf82104777a5b51d9467997ec54db15228ad671

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e6b894b0e653cbb1a1150c4a4ed2465f7ee3376e3485afe3018b791f580591d0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-02-11T01:40:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ce0b5d760adad3732b63c49c2cc82adfa9971924bbd21d9d1aea950735990fad"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2602.10408",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}