Pith Number

pith:YQ2P4H6C

pith:2024:YQ2P4H6C5WIYOBEJMW2KRQ3DF3

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Merging Text Transformer Models from Different Initializations

Maha Elbayad, Neha Verma

arxiv:2403.00986 v3 · 2024-03-01 · cs.CL · cs.AI · cs.LG

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First computed	2026-07-05T09:49:41.354039Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c434fe1fc2ed9187048965b4a8c3632ed6628516f7faa00ac8a1e60f3c606a0d

Aliases

arxiv: 2403.00986 · arxiv_version: 2403.00986v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2403.00986 · pith_short_12: YQ2P4H6C5WIY · pith_short_16: YQ2P4H6C5WIYOBEJ · pith_short_8: YQ2P4H6C

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/YQ2P4H6C5WIYOBEJMW2KRQ3DF3 \
  | 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: c434fe1fc2ed9187048965b4a8c3632ed6628516f7faa00ac8a1e60f3c606a0d

Canonical record JSON

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      "cs.AI",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2024-03-01T21:16:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3316dea5b6cb2c4bfad438b6d6534398aef3e696d5d5d772240933e58708aee1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2403.00986",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}