Pith Number

pith:VWPP6L7N

pith:2025:VWPP6L7NKA7FHVUHQJQMHUEEVJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Learning Pseudorandom Numbers with Transformers: Permuted Congruential Generators, Curricula, and Interpretability

Maissam Barkeshli, Tao Tao

arxiv:2510.26792 v2 · 2025-10-30 · cs.LG · cond-mat.dis-nn · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VWPP6L7NKA7FHVUHQJQMHUEEVJ}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-07-17T00:20:41.608980Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ad9eff2fed503e53d6878260c3d084aa6e9f5f3ca455e75f383e9922941e2e30

Aliases

arxiv: 2510.26792 · arxiv_version: 2510.26792v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2510.26792 · pith_short_12: VWPP6L7NKA7F · pith_short_16: VWPP6L7NKA7FHVUH · pith_short_8: VWPP6L7N

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VWPP6L7NKA7FHVUHQJQMHUEEVJ \
  | 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: ad9eff2fed503e53d6878260c3d084aa6e9f5f3ca455e75f383e9922941e2e30

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8e71f36a6cc0e3b3a9eba79ef66966cf082f40ae2418ebf225f0ea27068b59ca",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.dis-nn",
      "cs.CR"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2025-10-30T17:59:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3e9b9e020c969c29fb73ff23adaba9cdaa6f091126a5e08bf397a20e8b8c3ac5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2510.26792",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}