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pith:UM4W6O4T

pith:2025:UM4W6O4TDRTXDE3TH4NVIVR5ST

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Transformers without Normalization

Jiachen Zhu, Kaiming He, Xinlei Chen, Yann LeCun, Zhuang Liu

arxiv:2503.10622 v2 · 2025-03-13 · cs.LG · cs.AI · cs.CL · cs.CV

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A Mathematical Explanation of Transformers

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:21:44.177298Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

a3396f3b931c677193733f1b54563d94f5606ab5f57f38bb66c0fcaebfde4f15

Aliases

arxiv: 2503.10622 · arxiv_version: 2503.10622v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2503.10622 · pith_short_12: UM4W6O4TDRTX · pith_short_16: UM4W6O4TDRTXDE3T · pith_short_8: UM4W6O4T

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/UM4W6O4TDRTXDE3TH4NVIVR5ST \
  | 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: a3396f3b931c677193733f1b54563d94f5606ab5f57f38bb66c0fcaebfde4f15

Canonical record JSON

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      "cs.CL",
      "cs.CV"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2025-03-13T17:59:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0182d715e05b39ff90e899151729b037c086a1824f8303d147153ae0e388b6ed"
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