Pith Number

pith:JHVAXKMB

pith:2026:JHVAXKMBH5UQDVYNT7VKPTSBIS

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Polymorphism Is Rotation: Operational Mechanistic Interpretability from a Two-Layer Transformer to Pythia-70m

Jordan F. McCann

arxiv:2605.24577 v1 · 2026-05-23 · cs.LG · cs.AI · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JHVAXKMBH5UQDVYNT7VKPTSBIS}

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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	2026-05-26T01:03:47.140129Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

49ea0ba9813f6901d70d9feaa7ce4144b5ecf7540046619688b869785ef6cc00

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.24577 · arxiv_version: 2605.24577v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.24577 · pith_short_12: JHVAXKMBH5UQ · pith_short_16: JHVAXKMBH5UQDVYN · pith_short_8: JHVAXKMB

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/JHVAXKMBH5UQDVYNT7VKPTSBIS \
  | 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: 49ea0ba9813f6901d70d9feaa7ce4144b5ecf7540046619688b869785ef6cc00

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b5488b8867caf92403dd6f4abf07b9cee7ba0a1f76558729f35edb967045ed60",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-23T13:37:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "01e8149b798c41cda3a8a17199747217efa40e2d64ebe5b931c4d7f769ebc835"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.24577",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}