Pith Number

pith:4JYA3CNB

pith:2026:4JYA3CNBDK7PD5727PUVN3BPHM

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Perception Before Supervision: Self-Contained Visual Distillation from Counterfactual Blind Spots

Abdelrahman Shaker, Omkar Thawakar, Rao Muhammad Anwer, Ritesh Thawkar, Shravan Venkatraman

arxiv:2608.09931 v1 · 2026-08-10 · cs.CV

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\pithnumber{4JYA3CNBDK7PD5727PUVN3BPHM}

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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	2026-08-11T02:25:29.291909Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e2700d89a11abef1f7fafbe956ec2f3b1c5b2f4dff7bfb847fef843e40ec14a2

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.09931 · arxiv_version: 2608.09931v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.09931 · pith_short_12: 4JYA3CNBDK7P · pith_short_16: 4JYA3CNBDK7PD572 · pith_short_8: 4JYA3CNB

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4JYA3CNBDK7PD5727PUVN3BPHM \
  | 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: e2700d89a11abef1f7fafbe956ec2f3b1c5b2f4dff7bfb847fef843e40ec14a2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a8c6facaf40c4f10a5905a000fcf592af65dde8ecdba83be9ac8d2d4663a4e5d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CV",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-10T17:59:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "aadd50d7a6197f642cc33b4edcdbf6aeb7ae29c0accbc73bce4778ed453bd4f6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.09931",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}