Pith Number

pith:O3SCTMHI

pith:2026:O3SCTMHIQID7DSTXDR3X7Y7GOK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Where does Absolute Position come from in decoder-only Transformers?

Fabrizio Silvestri, Umberto Nanni, Valeria Ruscio

arxiv:2606.06160 v1 · 2026-06-04 · cs.AI · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{O3SCTMHIQID7DSTXDR3X7Y7GOK}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-06-05T01:15:35.833431Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

76e429b0e88207f1ca771c777fe3e67296b1a951f2ca19c59a3819da14a7cc8d

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.06160 · arxiv_version: 2606.06160v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.06160 · pith_short_12: O3SCTMHIQID7 · pith_short_16: O3SCTMHIQID7DSTX · pith_short_8: O3SCTMHI

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/O3SCTMHIQID7DSTXDR3X7Y7GOK \
  | 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: 76e429b0e88207f1ca771c777fe3e67296b1a951f2ca19c59a3819da14a7cc8d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "63b842e730d9124236579220ae53123080a8a87240205372b38c4be3ca9446f9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-04T13:32:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5ed95bb9ec207209655f388045e7a300580aa5ebcae7fc9da188609c6c24a032"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.06160",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}