Pith Number

pith:3ALO7SHL

pith:2026:3ALO7SHLEHDZVESOJ3L3VEO2JO

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Do Multimodal Agents Really Benefit from Tool Use? A Systematic Study of Capability Gains

Donglei Yu, Garvin Guo, Huaxing Liu, Minpeng Liao, Qinghao Wang, Shuai Li, Xiang Wang, Xinpei Zhao, Yu Chen

arxiv:2606.02357 v1 · 2026-06-01 · cs.CV · cs.AI

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\pithnumber{3ALO7SHLEHDZVESOJ3L3VEO2JO}

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First computed	2026-06-02T03:04:57.040238Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d816efc8eb21c79a924e4ed7ba91da4bbe9fb9d001f245d66c595011614c3cca

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.02357 · arxiv_version: 2606.02357v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.02357 · pith_short_12: 3ALO7SHLEHDZ · pith_short_16: 3ALO7SHLEHDZVESO · pith_short_8: 3ALO7SHL

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/3ALO7SHLEHDZVESOJ3L3VEO2JO \
  | 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: d816efc8eb21c79a924e4ed7ba91da4bbe9fb9d001f245d66c595011614c3cca

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4247243578964ae049b2c7f1db8df0f9b4dccc884c799287e244b245ce690ba6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CV",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-01T15:04:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9a30e33267fa977dcff202ab77f829c2316a245dfa59ee2a766750353ed4190b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.02357",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}