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pith:MLRPM4YI

pith:2023:MLRPM4YIFRVCES4D2ZVBWTPLCG

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Transformers as Support Vector Machines

Christos Thrampoulidis, Davoud Ataee Tarzanagh, Samet Oymak, Yingcong Li

arxiv:2308.16898 v3 · 2023-08-31 · cs.LG · cs.AI · cs.CL · math.OC

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First computed	2026-07-05T07:47:58.812894Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

62e2f673082c6a224b83d66a1b4deb119b86423808ec51625f95f01db78f7c43

Aliases

arxiv: 2308.16898 · arxiv_version: 2308.16898v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2308.16898 · pith_short_12: MLRPM4YIFRVC · pith_short_16: MLRPM4YIFRVCES4D · pith_short_8: MLRPM4YI

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MLRPM4YIFRVCES4D2ZVBWTPLCG \
  | 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: 62e2f673082c6a224b83d66a1b4deb119b86423808ec51625f95f01db78f7c43

Canonical record JSON

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      "math.OC"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2023-08-31T17:57:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "53f2e48176bb69dfff20c02461b5027e2c4f6196a900eb4a0fe41b351e735d90"
  },
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