Pith Number

pith:ZXLNVFA3

pith:2025:ZXLNVFA3BKAPN6I3OFDQNSSFZT

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What can we learn from signals and systems in a transformer? Insights for probabilistic modeling and inference architecture

Heng-Sheng Chang, Prashant G. Mehta

arxiv:2508.20211 v1 · 2025-08-27 · cs.LG · cs.SY · eess.SY · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZXLNVFA3BKAPN6I3OFDQNSSFZT}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T12:00:31.387672Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cdd6da941b0a80f6f91b714706ca45cce6f76dbc80a310edea7c72b38dde6a1f

Aliases

arxiv: 2508.20211 · arxiv_version: 2508.20211v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2508.20211 · pith_short_12: ZXLNVFA3BKAP · pith_short_16: ZXLNVFA3BKAPN6I3 · pith_short_8: ZXLNVFA3

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ZXLNVFA3BKAPN6I3OFDQNSSFZT \
  | 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: cdd6da941b0a80f6f91b714706ca45cce6f76dbc80a310edea7c72b38dde6a1f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2bb3e62a5344ce48bac22bca550174256694d55d5bcc56d3ce322ca5fcfff183",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SY",
      "eess.SY",
      "math.PR"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2025-08-27T18:37:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4ee4fb34366508a9d4d1ad76665b4b49cef2df94e1e4a55555acfaa150e18283"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2508.20211",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}