Pith Number

pith:BZTCUAQK

pith:2026:BZTCUAQK3UV7OPDBNKLNIDXVQ3

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Massive Activations Are Architecturally Robust: A Controlled Scratch/Commitment Residual Stream Test

Maruthi Vemula (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

arxiv:2606.20743 v1 · 2026-06-17 · cs.LG · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BZTCUAQK3UV7OPDBNKLNIDXVQ3}

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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	2026-06-23T00:11:55.305591Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0e662a020add2bf73c616a96d40ef586e65549db1a38a0881c2d1afbdcca1525

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.20743 · arxiv_version: 2606.20743v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.20743 · pith_short_12: BZTCUAQK3UV7 · pith_short_16: BZTCUAQK3UV7OPDB · pith_short_8: BZTCUAQK

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/BZTCUAQK3UV7OPDBNKLNIDXVQ3 \
  | 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: 0e662a020add2bf73c616a96d40ef586e65549db1a38a0881c2d1afbdcca1525

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e685e58759677c60e5de6e881d9c6fe2f7bf4deb7ff54f74ef8e65cdde3696e3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-17T20:30:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9679caa5c3635ff76ba8d4cb1efe42b2290cf4de45b6351ca379883c666cd00b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.20743",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}