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Field Note — 01 2026-08-31

Attention Is All You Need Has Five Fake Twins on Crossref

A citation-spam operation deposited the most-cited deep learning paper in the world five separate times under a fabricated date. What we found checking it, and ten other real papers' real bibliographies.

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