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pith:VTGZHNEY

pith:2020:VTGZHNEYCKNDALQJANQM5UKBNS

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The elephant in the interpretability room: Why use attention as explanation when we have saliency methods?

Jasmijn Bastings, Katja Filippova

arxiv:2010.05607 v1 · 2020-10-12 · cs.CL

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Contribution Weights: A Geometrical Analysis of Self-Attention Transformers

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First computed	2026-07-05T01:42:08.414671Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

accd93b498129a302e090360ced1416cbfc912b87c7636ab97c0a5e3f889dde8

Aliases

arxiv: 2010.05607 · arxiv_version: 2010.05607v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2010.05607 · pith_short_12: VTGZHNEYCKND · pith_short_16: VTGZHNEYCKNDALQJ · pith_short_8: VTGZHNEY

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VTGZHNEYCKNDALQJANQM5UKBNS \
  | 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: accd93b498129a302e090360ced1416cbfc912b87c7636ab97c0a5e3f889dde8

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2020-10-12T11:27:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "08dd62b670a24b018aac7d6e5d979c6528df100954c55f721c5a5305867c04e7"
  },
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  }
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