Pith Number

pith:M5WSJ5VF

pith:2025:M5WSJ5VFCVHBSBMR6RHPRWNAVE

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The geometry of BERT

Giansalvo Cirrincione, Giorgia Ghione, Matteo Bonino

arxiv:2502.12033 v1 · 2025-02-17 · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{M5WSJ5VFCVHBSBMR6RHPRWNAVE}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T10:15:37.647154Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

676d24f6a5154e190591f44ef8d9a0a9024e64d1063c937f9b8a5a528e73a2b7

Aliases

arxiv: 2502.12033 · arxiv_version: 2502.12033v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2502.12033 · pith_short_12: M5WSJ5VFCVHB · pith_short_16: M5WSJ5VFCVHBSBMR · pith_short_8: M5WSJ5VF

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/M5WSJ5VFCVHBSBMR6RHPRWNAVE \
  | 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: 676d24f6a5154e190591f44ef8d9a0a9024e64d1063c937f9b8a5a528e73a2b7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e35a256eea6d32dc3f4dd6a6d7cbccbbe3fda7e362c719c528a5cc374a352987",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2025-02-17T17:03:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f9f6af2b2ff75bcd7ffdcef3dbea6e7dff4cd07348dcb82ec4932adc3e3cd638"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2502.12033",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}