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pith:W2MQDI53

pith:2021:W2MQDI53FHZI5FPVMAVQ3INXQ2

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NormFormer: Improved Transformer Pretraining with Extra Normalization

Jason Weston, Myle Ott, Sam Shleifer

arxiv:2110.09456 v2 · 2021-10-18 · cs.CL · cs.AI

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First computed	2026-07-05T03:27:36.557699Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b69901a3bb29f28e95f5602b0da1b7868a1692a641d18f5ac8e4a169c189cc12

Aliases

arxiv: 2110.09456 · arxiv_version: 2110.09456v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2110.09456 · pith_short_12: W2MQDI53FHZI · pith_short_16: W2MQDI53FHZI5FPV · pith_short_8: W2MQDI53

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/W2MQDI53FHZI5FPVMAVQ3INXQ2 \
  | 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: b69901a3bb29f28e95f5602b0da1b7868a1692a641d18f5ac8e4a169c189cc12

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2021-10-18T16:47:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a5104797a885e2b53db46ec80463be1c534249d21ccc252847c050b67fc0a442"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2110.09456",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}