Pith Number

pith:5Z7TBQEA

pith:2026:5Z7TBQEA5GNECEJTCJQBZXATLY

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Optical Reasoning: Rethinking Images as an Expressive Reasoning Medium Beyond Text

Dongjie Cheng, Heming Xia, Wenjie Li, Yongqi Li, Yutong Bian

arxiv:2606.09585 v1 · 2026-06-08 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5Z7TBQEA5GNECEJTCJQBZXATLY}

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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.

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First computed	2026-06-09T02:08:57.459780Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ee7f30c080e99a41113312601cdc135e212dd73c206b1726875d271b25261107

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.09585 · arxiv_version: 2606.09585v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.09585 · pith_short_12: 5Z7TBQEA5GNE · pith_short_16: 5Z7TBQEA5GNECEJT · pith_short_8: 5Z7TBQEA

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/5Z7TBQEA5GNECEJTCJQBZXATLY \
  | 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: ee7f30c080e99a41113312601cdc135e212dd73c206b1726875d271b25261107

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d6459ba24050937ab360a364869f40f3a91aa50c9dd45a3ef65e6b0cfee732c3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-08T14:58:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8ae5ee526cfff093976d26be999fc52faf00c98ea6a05defd92ee64ad6647888"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.09585",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}