Pith Number

pith:GE33OONA

pith:2023:GE33OONA4SSWAHI5BCCD2AI7CP

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Birth of a Transformer: A Memory Viewpoint

Alberto Bietti, Diane Bouchacourt, Herve Jegou, Leon Bottou, Vivien Cabannes

arxiv:2306.00802 v2 · 2023-06-01 · stat.ML · cs.CL · cs.LG

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First computed	2026-07-05T07:09:49.086444Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3137b739a0e4a5601d1d08843d011f13e8517785ee45119eee5f9309c3ff5e83

Aliases

arxiv: 2306.00802 · arxiv_version: 2306.00802v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2306.00802 · pith_short_12: GE33OONA4SSW · pith_short_16: GE33OONA4SSWAHI5 · pith_short_8: GE33OONA

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/GE33OONA4SSWAHI5BCCD2AI7CP \
  | 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: 3137b739a0e4a5601d1d08843d011f13e8517785ee45119eee5f9309c3ff5e83

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "30ed789eba9c4753e59773c522660fc14998c7acf931bb5c98bac9d6bcf8e4fc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2023-06-01T15:30:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bdcbf34e0b9168870e11c43471fbcca97694fa90e1ba5f9dbeb95c504c3c4853"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2306.00802",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}