Pith Number

pith:55MCT7OL

pith:2026:55MCT7OLPKDFII4WLQLLUVOZEI

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Same Semantics, Different Paths: Self-Improving Alignment for Vision-Text Compression

Dongxing Mao, Tianyu Liang, Xiangxi Zheng, Yilin Wang

arxiv:2608.02109 v1 · 2026-08-03 · cs.CV

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{55MCT7OLPKDFII4WLQLLUVOZEI}

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4 Citations 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	2026-08-04T02:10:52.135017Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ef5829fdcb7a865423965c16ba55d922339ae2a7c2a3cf2442c83dae3d778f04

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.02109 · arxiv_version: 2608.02109v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.02109 · pith_short_12: 55MCT7OLPKDF · pith_short_16: 55MCT7OLPKDFII4W · pith_short_8: 55MCT7OL

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/55MCT7OLPKDFII4WLQLLUVOZEI \
  | 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: ef5829fdcb7a865423965c16ba55d922339ae2a7c2a3cf2442c83dae3d778f04

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "009bb8e02be93e1f9b1cc4af315dd4bef48ca2d9625982f671901de854c3d4a1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CV",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-03T12:08:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0f415df6bf7909e852fdfd11b757bd4a66b3150c88d10d14e25345c15d6e60aa"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.02109",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}