Pith Number

pith:J36PKNAA

pith:2025:J36PKNAAJMEO76NERSKPX6Q2L5

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A Refined Analysis of Massive Activations in LLMs

Abhay Kumar, Fabian G\"ura, Louis Owen, Nilabhra Roy Chowdhury

arxiv:2503.22329 v1 · 2025-03-28 · cs.CL

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Attention Sinks Induce Gradient Sinks: Massive Activations as Gradient Regulators in Transformers

A Single Layer to Explain Them All:Understanding Massive Activations in Large Language Models

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First computed	2026-07-05T10:40:52.551485Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4efcf534004b08eff9a48c94fbfa1a5f576e0993d51d95a498efdd55d1970b5a

Aliases

arxiv: 2503.22329 · arxiv_version: 2503.22329v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2503.22329 · pith_short_12: J36PKNAAJMEO · pith_short_16: J36PKNAAJMEO76NE · pith_short_8: J36PKNAA

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/J36PKNAAJMEO76NERSKPX6Q2L5 \
  | 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: 4efcf534004b08eff9a48c94fbfa1a5f576e0993d51d95a498efdd55d1970b5a

Canonical record JSON

{
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2025-03-28T11:08:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9394b01de38a0c0e61b75aa68a27c9b4aae638afb04087e6a48fd7fdb18b9888"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2503.22329",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}