Pith Number

pith:XBQSIV4K

pith:2023:XBQSIV4K773C6PYOYZWGHCUIMP

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Latent Positional Information is in the Self-Attention Variance of Transformer Language Models Without Positional Embeddings

Alexander I. Rudnicky, Li-Wei Chen, Peter J. Ramadge, Ta-Chung Chi, Ting-Han Fan

arxiv:2305.13571 v1 · 2023-05-23 · cs.CL

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\pithnumber{XBQSIV4K773C6PYOYZWGHCUIMP}

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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	2026-07-05T06:12:54.433664Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b86124578afff62f3f0ec66c638a8863e66bace09048370774d8a307c6fb77f6

Aliases

arxiv: 2305.13571 · arxiv_version: 2305.13571v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2305.13571 · pith_short_12: XBQSIV4K773C · pith_short_16: XBQSIV4K773C6PYO · pith_short_8: XBQSIV4K

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/XBQSIV4K773C6PYOYZWGHCUIMP \
  | 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: b86124578afff62f3f0ec66c638a8863e66bace09048370774d8a307c6fb77f6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "248c0c7a5223919ee9d206dfd498419af4cecfc9f1cd45ac0e598230f2699c78",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2023-05-23T01:03:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "140af12d3c10659fe66a4b7c370e6d81c78b2cb06c4ae83dc079fc16835ccceb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2305.13571",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}