Pith Number

pith:ECKJJA7S

pith:2026:ECKJJA7SOQQ4EOXT3GNC2ENPY2

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Post-Hoc Sparse Coding of Latent Communication Between Vision-Language Model Agents

Di Wu, Xiaohui Zhu

arxiv:2608.10198 v1 · 2026-08-10 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ECKJJA7SOQQ4EOXT3GNC2ENPY2}

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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	2026-08-12T00:23:02.287527Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

20949483f27421c23af3d99a2d11afc6b77a803c3450c802d948b26745f3e4ab

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.10198 · arxiv_version: 2608.10198v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.10198 · pith_short_12: ECKJJA7SOQQ4 · pith_short_16: ECKJJA7SOQQ4EOXT · pith_short_8: ECKJJA7S

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ECKJJA7SOQQ4EOXT3GNC2ENPY2 \
  | 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: 20949483f27421c23af3d99a2d11afc6b77a803c3450c802d948b26745f3e4ab

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "68171dd3cebdc47d73212a2eed8b1cfb992ae5cc65879df8b0c003927575389d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-10T20:16:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cdc69b90380c703ea441b8a1d9887ed490fd8d9321599573a2cef0355d107c1c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.10198",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}