Pith Number

pith:KP6R2TKL

pith:2025:KP6R2TKLBXVP5ST34VJBY5LMXX

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The Hidden Cost of an Image: Quantifying the Energy Consumption of AI Image Generation

Chiara Albisani, Daniele Baracchi, Dasara Shullani, Giulia Bertazzini, Roberto Verdecchia

arxiv:2506.17016 v1 · 2025-06-20 · cs.LG · cs.MM

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\pithnumber{KP6R2TKLBXVP5ST34VJBY5LMXX}

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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	2026-07-05T11:24:54.820679Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

53fd1d4d4b0deafeca7be5521c756cbdc7ae1ef3247a53b77041b18bd3dbf3c7

Aliases

arxiv: 2506.17016 · arxiv_version: 2506.17016v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.17016 · pith_short_12: KP6R2TKLBXVP · pith_short_16: KP6R2TKLBXVP5ST3 · pith_short_8: KP6R2TKL

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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/KP6R2TKLBXVP5ST34VJBY5LMXX \
  | 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: 53fd1d4d4b0deafeca7be5521c756cbdc7ae1ef3247a53b77041b18bd3dbf3c7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c0a2013dff93524fe60a764206e6a4f896d55febac2354003d5e30a3e0847228",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.MM"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2025-06-20T14:13:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c7ac3a913721598b25c233bdec4a268c812879ae8b995c6ef79c5788943600e8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2506.17016",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}