Pith Number

pith:6ALCHAXZ

pith:2025:6ALCHAXZDRMXJE3YCEVQI6G73H

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Knowing or Guessing? Robust Medical Visual Question Answering via Joint Consistency and Contrastive Learning

Jian Wu, Sibo Song, Songtao Jiang, Yang Feng, Yan Zhang, Yeying Jin, Yuxi Chen, Zuozhu Liu

arxiv:2508.18687 v1 · 2025-08-26 · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6ALCHAXZDRMXJE3YCEVQI6G73H}

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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	2026-07-05T11:59:29.299554Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f0162382f91c59749378112b0478dfd9f8d907d7126cc85daf24e2cda7eed9ec

Aliases

arxiv: 2508.18687 · arxiv_version: 2508.18687v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2508.18687 · pith_short_12: 6ALCHAXZDRMX · pith_short_16: 6ALCHAXZDRMXJE3Y · pith_short_8: 6ALCHAXZ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6ALCHAXZDRMXJE3YCEVQI6G73H \
  | 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: f0162382f91c59749378112b0478dfd9f8d907d7126cc85daf24e2cda7eed9ec

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fcecdcd5038f0be432984b58d389e8fcd5fd9771007ac4691ebdffaf81168845",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2025-08-26T05:21:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fde89e270b8cf89c5cc324c1232ae9b28c49f23fa60173ac726a8b2d47c34673"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2508.18687",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}