Pith Number

pith:EGLIZ332

pith:2026:EGLIZ332YVVXCWO6W3ECRYRYND

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Ablation-Reversible Heads Don't Transfer: A Stress Test for Mechanistic Role Claims in Transformers

Philip Quirke

arxiv:2606.08292 v1 · 2026-06-06 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EGLIZ332YVVXCWO6W3ECRYRYND}

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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	2026-06-09T01:05:32.788440Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

21968cef7ac56b7159deb6c828e23868f46c896996bc478a7779b73d6c67ac1c

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.08292 · arxiv_version: 2606.08292v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.08292 · pith_short_12: EGLIZ332YVVX · pith_short_16: EGLIZ332YVVXCWO6 · pith_short_8: EGLIZ332

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/EGLIZ332YVVXCWO6W3ECRYRYND \
  | 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: 21968cef7ac56b7159deb6c828e23868f46c896996bc478a7779b73d6c67ac1c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fd184e89a90b25aa070a21574cadbc67bd17893b35e92f9f1c72896550502733",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-06T18:29:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a77b77c125e7bd792e65b46b67e227ba767cfe504f13f6a12abf36cb9bd01c8e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.08292",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}