Pith Number

pith:6VOCLAC4

pith:2026:6VOCLAC4GWNFJUA54R7VQKWAJU

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Thinking With Tools, Not With Pixels: Tool Calls as Text Scaffolds for Visual Reasoning

Ceyuan Yang, Jiahao Shao, Yinghao Xu, Yiyi Liao, Yuanbo Yang, Yujun Shen

arxiv:2608.09682 v1 · 2026-08-10 · cs.CV

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6VOCLAC4GWNFJUA54R7VQKWAJU}

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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	2026-08-11T02:24:48.439649Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f55c25805c359a54d01de47f582ac04d3ab82be9014d2e360207cab58f75b68d

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.09682 · arxiv_version: 2608.09682v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.09682 · pith_short_12: 6VOCLAC4GWNF · pith_short_16: 6VOCLAC4GWNFJUA5 · pith_short_8: 6VOCLAC4

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6VOCLAC4GWNFJUA54R7VQKWAJU \
  | 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: f55c25805c359a54d01de47f582ac04d3ab82be9014d2e360207cab58f75b68d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8afba20b057909fd8b388f5886bf6830cc1db2b33458ac0b4f513f1481ee4dfc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CV",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-10T14:52:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4e60991bfcf06369183d5843d332f46e8a56fb988e60292cb9236e4edfecec05"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.09682",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}