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pith:G2VPENNR

pith:2021:G2VPENNR66SJ5UDHLFMITRB7UK

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An Interpretability Illusion for BERT

Adam Pearce, Andy Coenen, Ann Yuan, Emily Reif, Fernanda Vi\'egas, Martin Wattenberg, Tolga Bolukbasi

arxiv:2104.07143 v1 · 2021-04-14 · cs.CL · cs.LG

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First computed	2026-07-05T02:32:18.249339Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

36aaf235b1f7a49ed067595889c43fa286fdbebdc3d8e9e5f5d124d488e6dbfa

Aliases

arxiv: 2104.07143 · arxiv_version: 2104.07143v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2104.07143 · pith_short_12: G2VPENNR66SJ · pith_short_16: G2VPENNR66SJ5UDH · pith_short_8: G2VPENNR

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/G2VPENNR66SJ5UDHLFMITRB7UK \
  | 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: 36aaf235b1f7a49ed067595889c43fa286fdbebdc3d8e9e5f5d124d488e6dbfa

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2021-04-14T22:04:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bb15ef7e0248510662a11010118aed5559dcbb9f5aa5dc67ec1c6fe8e191771f"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}