Pith Number

pith:Q6N54BJL

pith:2026:Q6N54BJLAK7DXTLT5BCWDA556P

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Small Initialization Matters for Large Language Models

Feiyu Xiong, Hongkang Yang, Junjie Yao, Liangkai Hang, Zhi-Qin John Xu, Zhiyu Li

arxiv:2606.17945 v1 · 2026-06-16 · cs.AI

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First computed	2026-06-19T16:10:44.186216Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

879bde052b02be3bcd73e8456183bdf3d286dc897c750d38f1c0d3ad42b8ef5d

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.17945 · arxiv_version: 2606.17945v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.17945 · pith_short_12: Q6N54BJLAK7D · pith_short_16: Q6N54BJLAK7DXTLT · pith_short_8: Q6N54BJL

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/Q6N54BJLAK7DXTLT5BCWDA556P \
  | 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: 879bde052b02be3bcd73e8456183bdf3d286dc897c750d38f1c0d3ad42b8ef5d

Canonical record JSON

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    "abstract_canon_sha256": "569af4a63c53da93a226abed901ebf526bbe11f8c2503c4d13532b7b31651ab5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-16T13:53:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3e54df7dcd92fb247100b450b595fac7da8397af2bba9fd8b89ae3b2a465dd96"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.17945",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}