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pith:PYX7MLW3

pith:2026:PYX7MLW3DVJULSFW7E6WKRHGA7
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Does RoPE Prevent or Degrade Retrieval Heads? A Mechanistic Analysis Across Model Families

Cengizhan Bayram

arxiv:2606.21249 v1 · 2026-06-19 · cs.LG · cs.CL

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\pithnumber{PYX7MLW3DVJULSFW7E6WKRHGA7}

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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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First computed 2026-06-23T01:12:34.688120Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05) · public key
Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7e2ff62edb1d5345c8b6f93d6544e607f7265cb5700acef9288e62aa3559e2d7

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.21249 · arxiv_version: 2606.21249v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.21249 · pith_short_12: PYX7MLW3DVJU · pith_short_16: PYX7MLW3DVJULSFW · pith_short_8: PYX7MLW3
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/PYX7MLW3DVJULSFW7E6WKRHGA7 \
  | 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: 7e2ff62edb1d5345c8b6f93d6544e607f7265cb5700acef9288e62aa3559e2d7
Canonical record JSON
{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ae7356ca27f3786b9cace2440fcb00c3b633d702a6a82316a8cac035b5a4438b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-19T09:23:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5ef87dcf5aac7ebf33692abc1febb5c2c17c7c9fee2e57be9822096ee821a874"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.21249",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}