Pith Number

pith:CZWASWXR

pith:2026:CZWASWXRT2HNRTUQTSFPUYRRW2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Where Pretraining writes and Alignment reads: the asymmetry of Transformer weight space

Eli-Shaoul Khedouri, Keiran Thompson, Valeria Ruscio

arxiv:2605.16600 v1 · 2026-05-15 · cs.LG · cs.AI · cs.CL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CZWASWXRT2HNRTUQTSFPUYRRW2}

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Record completeness

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3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-20T00:02:31.916154Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

166c095af19e8ed8ce909c8afa6231b68396d9a742a727b89e9790b59da55267

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.16600 · arxiv_version: 2605.16600v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.16600 · pith_short_12: CZWASWXRT2HN · pith_short_16: CZWASWXRT2HNRTUQ · pith_short_8: CZWASWXR

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/CZWASWXRT2HNRTUQTSFPUYRRW2 \
  | 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: 166c095af19e8ed8ce909c8afa6231b68396d9a742a727b89e9790b59da55267

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "52c0d8a01da5b8a6420aa64f63e3e873bc393aeb68bcbcc4695cc14dedc5e030",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-15T20:00:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ec3059d83caf393febed16ff00301791da29c21c07f8defd6854e97566179db3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.16600",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}