Pith Number

pith:XFJSBDYJ

pith:2026:XFJSBDYJG62SFBISEF4GAXJRDQ

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Off-Axis, On Purpose: Where a Transformer Computes Concepts and Why it Does So

Mark Oskin

arxiv:2608.10251 v1 · 2026-08-10 · cs.CL · cs.LG

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XFJSBDYJG62SFBISEF4GAXJRDQ}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-08-12T00:23:11.080555Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b953208f0937b52285122178605d311c0625cb6bb14a00fd456eff25509807e7

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.10251 · arxiv_version: 2608.10251v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.10251 · pith_short_12: XFJSBDYJG62S · pith_short_16: XFJSBDYJG62SFBIS · pith_short_8: XFJSBDYJ

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/XFJSBDYJG62SFBISEF4GAXJRDQ \
  | 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: b953208f0937b52285122178605d311c0625cb6bb14a00fd456eff25509807e7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b7574412ff9490866aaefae2a67e883ad2c3eba68b3e6b61a811708ccc4db2aa",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-10T21:35:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5977008412d17d8143f17a401a52b2339a646abd607fbc77a4d504d4e98afc32"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.10251",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}