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pith:LGBI7AJK

pith:2026:LGBI7AJKRTDU6BSXWKQTE57BZ4

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Ablate-to-Validate: Are Vision-Language Models Really Using Continuous Thought Tokens?

Mahtab Bigverdi, Ranjay Krishna, Tianyi Zhang

arxiv:2605.21642 v1 · 2026-05-20 · cs.CV

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First computed	2026-05-22T01:03:26.569172Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

59828f812a8cc74f0657b2a13277e1cf0a5bd4ded01d8b11f3cd2bc59e759576

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.21642 · arxiv_version: 2605.21642v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.21642 · pith_short_12: LGBI7AJKRTDU · pith_short_16: LGBI7AJKRTDU6BSX · pith_short_8: LGBI7AJK

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LGBI7AJKRTDU6BSXWKQTE57BZ4 \
  | 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: 59828f812a8cc74f0657b2a13277e1cf0a5bd4ded01d8b11f3cd2bc59e759576

Canonical record JSON

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    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CV",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-20T18:55:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "548240e39f8927c883d08f8244e18cb9c0e8b8109ea479cf7e3d6c6869e50e49"
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