Pith Number

pith:VW2YKIYF

pith:2026:VW2YKIYFGOSM5WCSJNLCNOHMFQ

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How Quantization Changes Interpretable Features: A Sparse Autoencoder Analysis of Language Models

Evan Duan

arxiv:2606.03002 v1 · 2026-06-02 · cs.LG · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VW2YKIYFGOSM5WCSJNLCNOHMFQ}

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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	2026-06-03T01:05:29.002562Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

adb585230533a4ced8524b5626b8ec2c2e58bee804436f997e0c8ff9402b8145

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.03002 · arxiv_version: 2606.03002v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.03002 · pith_short_12: VW2YKIYFGOSM · pith_short_16: VW2YKIYFGOSM5WCS · pith_short_8: VW2YKIYF

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VW2YKIYFGOSM5WCSJNLCNOHMFQ \
  | 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: adb585230533a4ced8524b5626b8ec2c2e58bee804436f997e0c8ff9402b8145

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bdd7bac22f0201b3874774f165247af7ab9ace58d15cba8074082f3835287ced",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-02T01:17:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b0691d031efdd2620ac5f139ccd2986e49343baa77c373b3bfd33e5877958857"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.03002",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}