Pith Number

pith:B2HSRLFL

pith:2026:B2HSRLFLE23BCMU7JHDGN2DX3Y

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When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs

Jiaming Cheng, Rajiv Ramnath, Subhransu Das

arxiv:2608.04893 v1 · 2026-08-05 · cs.CR · cs.AI · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{B2HSRLFLE23BCMU7JHDGN2DX3Y}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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	2026-08-06T01:47:33.603373Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0e8f28acab26b611329f49c666e877de1d5b289b14b454724788549489ec8dd1

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.04893 · arxiv_version: 2608.04893v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.04893 · pith_short_12: B2HSRLFLE23B · pith_short_16: B2HSRLFLE23BCMU7 · pith_short_8: B2HSRLFL

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/B2HSRLFLE23BCMU7JHDGN2DX3Y \
  | 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: 0e8f28acab26b611329f49c666e877de1d5b289b14b454724788549489ec8dd1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "14dcc2f1538650a7f488ca17ad3029329100495b97c0c8c5a2512af33a125c2f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-05T14:18:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "663c1ea76236e00e5b8d5d7068ebdace10e1d5e6dc5e45a4c0087ce0c02baa42"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.04893",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}