Pith Number

pith:G6A2ILVN

pith:2023:G6A2ILVNEO2EHETMQVUCGFRXLC

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Vanishing Gradients in Reinforcement Finetuning of Language Models

Arwen Bradley, Etai Littwin, Hattie Zhou, Joshua Susskind, Noam Razin, Omid Saremi, Preetum Nakkiran, Vimal Thilak

arxiv:2310.20703 v3 · 2023-10-31 · cs.LG · cs.AI · cs.CL · stat.ML

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First computed	2026-07-05T07:56:00.949735Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3781a42ead23b443926c856823163758ba35e542f5606327de057e72f3dd51ab

Aliases

arxiv: 2310.20703 · arxiv_version: 2310.20703v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2310.20703 · pith_short_12: G6A2ILVNEO2E · pith_short_16: G6A2ILVNEO2EHETM · pith_short_8: G6A2ILVN

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/G6A2ILVNEO2EHETMQVUCGFRXLC \
  | 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: 3781a42ead23b443926c856823163758ba35e542f5606327de057e72f3dd51ab

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.CL",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2023-10-31T17:59:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "602a206918c663961fafa2b9ba2310fe59a967753eb653e37fe3f162a6e444bb"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}