Pith Number

pith:3BU76VNG

pith:2026:3BU76VNGHVGEIWUENLENLL6BYZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

ASCII Art Turns LLMs into VLA Controllers

Brian Plancher, Devin Balkcom, Luyang Zhao, Muhao Chen, Roy Xing, Yitao Jiang

arxiv:2606.21470 v1 · 2026-06-19 · cs.RO · cs.CV · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3BU76VNGHVGEIWUENLENLL6BYZ}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-06-23T01:13:11.479617Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d869ff55a63d4c445a846ac8d5afc1c6602fe2aeab343fb783764981ab789cbf

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.21470 · arxiv_version: 2606.21470v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.21470 · pith_short_12: 3BU76VNGHVGE · pith_short_16: 3BU76VNGHVGEIWUE · pith_short_8: 3BU76VNG

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/3BU76VNGHVGEIWUENLENLL6BYZ \
  | 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: d869ff55a63d4c445a846ac8d5afc1c6602fe2aeab343fb783764981ab789cbf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bd12d79f284e29f6c582486d586b072e544c14e44550108b8cbcb918a30b356f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CV",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.RO",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-19T14:19:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1679c1e18d700316ac8081496fbb00304d255ff3245e94f1d6320cc5e4505173"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.21470",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}