Pith Number

pith:N3NUAWMN

pith:2023:N3NUAWMNULWQ2IPBGILGGZISXG

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Sudden Drops in the Loss: Syntax Acquisition, Phase Transitions, and Simplicity Bias in MLMs

Angelica Chen, Kyunghyun Cho, Matthew L. Leavitt, Naomi Saphra, Ravid Shwartz-Ziv

arxiv:2309.07311 v6 · 2023-09-13 · cs.CL

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First computed	2026-07-05T10:37:05.102890Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6edb40598da2ed0d21e13216636512b9bb558ccad1984fdb69060c9117538995

Aliases

arxiv: 2309.07311 · arxiv_version: 2309.07311v6 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2309.07311 · pith_short_12: N3NUAWMNULWQ · pith_short_16: N3NUAWMNULWQ2IPB · pith_short_8: N3NUAWMN

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/N3NUAWMNULWQ2IPBGILGGZISXG \
  | 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: 6edb40598da2ed0d21e13216636512b9bb558ccad1984fdb69060c9117538995

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2023-09-13T20:57:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a06332f862f8d277f46b32240dd7b615f7b4df9fc561c36e349d930a3a51fa2e"
  },
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  "source": {
    "id": "2309.07311",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}