Pith Number

pith:XV7NRO3O

pith:2025:XV7NRO3OM3FW22QTTB3H26HT34

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Transcoders Beat Sparse Autoencoders for Interpretability

Gon\c{c}alo Paulo, Nora Belrose, Stepan Shabalin

arxiv:2501.18823 v2 · 2025-01-31 · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XV7NRO3OM3FW22QTTB3H26HT34}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T10:13:07.976167Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bd7ed8bb6e66cb6d6a1398767d78f3df1d6d1e102e91a7077fb83ff03fda8e55

Aliases

arxiv: 2501.18823 · arxiv_version: 2501.18823v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2501.18823 · pith_short_12: XV7NRO3OM3FW · pith_short_16: XV7NRO3OM3FW22QT · pith_short_8: XV7NRO3O

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/XV7NRO3OM3FW22QTTB3H26HT34 \
  | 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: bd7ed8bb6e66cb6d6a1398767d78f3df1d6d1e102e91a7077fb83ff03fda8e55

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "04668569de8556d51bd7dff60fca22bc484084079fcb7e82037b12674d97d5db",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2025-01-31T00:36:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7e7840ef68f5bb95c53fcbda2a6f2d221ccfda4f07ad068bf6f50d147320bd0e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2501.18823",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}