Pith Number

pith:GXCYWW2I

pith:2026:GXCYWW2IM5MG7YRE43RVCA6WMI

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How Much Does It Cost to Answer My Question? Benchmarking Cloud VLM-based VQA Systems

Guohao Lan, Henri Vanhuynegem, Weitao Xu, Yiran Shen

arxiv:2608.07861 v1 · 2026-08-08 · cs.CV · cs.HC · cs.IR · cs.MM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GXCYWW2IM5MG7YRE43RVCA6WMI}

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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	2026-08-11T01:18:44.797707Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

35c58b5b4867586fe224e6e35103d66238d2455181f4d0b387580dc85a556176

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.07861 · arxiv_version: 2608.07861v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.07861 · pith_short_12: GXCYWW2IM5MG · pith_short_16: GXCYWW2IM5MG7YRE · pith_short_8: GXCYWW2I

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/GXCYWW2IM5MG7YRE43RVCA6WMI \
  | 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: 35c58b5b4867586fe224e6e35103d66238d2455181f4d0b387580dc85a556176

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "82f526a287613c989eb52ee0c151918bd3ca95d006651a3c6347d50d23d7d1ac",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.HC",
      "cs.IR",
      "cs.MM"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CV",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-08T01:58:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f800a9c2b9048cb62b7ad92164b77da33420a0cddfd50d9207dffc493f1784b6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.07861",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}