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pith:CWCWQBLG

pith:2026:CWCWQBLGQ35PY6ZMOBXHWWKPCU

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A Structural Theory of Position Bias in Transformers

Hanna Herasimchyk, Robin Labryga, S\"oren Laue, Tomislav Prusina

arxiv:2602.16837 v2 · 2026-02-18 · cs.LG

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Kinetic theory for Transformers and the lost-in-the-middle phenomenon

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First computed	2026-05-28T01:04:37.156644Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

158568056686fafc7b2c706e7b594f150035af552dd2cf2819ad0438862dbdd7

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arxiv: 2602.16837 · arxiv_version: 2602.16837v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2602.16837 · pith_short_12: CWCWQBLGQ35P · pith_short_16: CWCWQBLGQ35PY6ZM · pith_short_8: CWCWQBLG

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/CWCWQBLGQ35PY6ZMOBXHWWKPCU \
  | 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: 158568056686fafc7b2c706e7b594f150035af552dd2cf2819ad0438862dbdd7

Canonical record JSON

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    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-02-18T20:01:39Z",
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  },
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