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pith:IVIGOX7U

pith:2024:IVIGOX7UF235ULHMYIPZADXP72

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What needs to go right for an induction head? A mechanistic study of in-context learning circuits and their formation

Aaditya K. Singh, Andrew M. Saxe, Felix Hill, Stephanie C.Y. Chan, Ted Moskovitz

arxiv:2404.07129 v1 · 2024-04-10 · cs.LG

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First computed	2026-07-05T08:06:35.635955Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

4550675ff42eb7da2cecc21f900eeffebbaa8e115bed55aeff902f6296a5e132

Aliases

arxiv: 2404.07129 · arxiv_version: 2404.07129v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2404.07129 · pith_short_12: IVIGOX7UF235 · pith_short_16: IVIGOX7UF235ULHM · pith_short_8: IVIGOX7U

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/IVIGOX7UF235ULHMYIPZADXP72 \
  | 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: 4550675ff42eb7da2cecc21f900eeffebbaa8e115bed55aeff902f6296a5e132

Canonical record JSON

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    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2024-04-10T16:07:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0a9817c368d85ddfa6e01311df744232143c6269a92ca6a38715f96e51482cfb"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
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