Pith Number

pith:UM3U6FLR

pith:2026:UM3U6FLRFFAPKW33MCWT7MTFDR

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When Attention Goes Blind: Numerical Failure in ALiBi Positional Encodings

Christopher Schr\"oder, Ferdinand Schlatt, Gerhard Heyer, Lukas Gienapp, Martin Potthast

arxiv:2608.03994 v1 · 2026-08-04 · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UM3U6FLRFFAPKW33MCWT7MTFDR}

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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	2026-08-05T01:37:39.602340Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a3374f15712940f55b7b60ad3fb2651c4b33962be0d13222f394facada745c32

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.03994 · arxiv_version: 2608.03994v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.03994 · pith_short_12: UM3U6FLRFFAP · pith_short_16: UM3U6FLRFFAPKW33 · pith_short_8: UM3U6FLR

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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/UM3U6FLRFFAPKW33MCWT7MTFDR \
  | 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: a3374f15712940f55b7b60ad3fb2651c4b33962be0d13222f394facada745c32

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7093bdaf164d8e983e9069690d52a9ba291d40aaa5be9208a7198dc9e9987d2c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-04T17:54:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7bd846d10d159927c8b28c1df95b3503d21a74a905a154d7dcc37bd72152bc72"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.03994",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}