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pith:AWVOQ37A

pith:2026:AWVOQ37AD7INFAKOWQTJT5AXLH

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Contrastive Conceptor Activation Steering (COAST): Unlocking Vision-Language-Action Models through Hidden States

Brandon Yang, Lyle Ungar, Miranda Muqing Miao, Subin Kim

arxiv:2605.17144 v1 · 2026-05-16 · cs.RO · cs.AI · cs.LG

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First computed	2026-05-20T00:03:42.025337Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

05aae86fe01fd0d2814eb42699f41759c3ac0ade0063653088ff4231b73bb03f

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.17144 · arxiv_version: 2605.17144v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.17144 · pith_short_12: AWVOQ37AD7IN · pith_short_16: AWVOQ37AD7INFAKO · pith_short_8: AWVOQ37A

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/AWVOQ37AD7INFAKOWQTJT5AXLH \
  | 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: 05aae86fe01fd0d2814eb42699f41759c3ac0ade0063653088ff4231b73bb03f

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.RO",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-16T20:28:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7985ee674e0972261ffcf91762be8a7ef45bff989d5ca1c0f580e7021cf6368d"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}