Pith Number

pith:MYOOYDXE

pith:2026:MYOOYDXEHFJNNDFIA6P5SWYS44

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Towards Understanding Modality Interaction in Multimodal Language Models via Partial Information Decomposition

Alvin Chan, Tianle Zhang, Wanlong Fang, Wen Tao

arxiv:2606.00959 v1 · 2026-05-31 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MYOOYDXEHFJNNDFIA6P5SWYS44}

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First computed	2026-06-02T01:04:10.472917Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

661cec0ee43952d68ca8079fd95b12e70d7791e9c59ebb942bc43580f38c985d

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.00959 · arxiv_version: 2606.00959v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.00959 · pith_short_12: MYOOYDXEHFJN · pith_short_16: MYOOYDXEHFJNNDFI · pith_short_8: MYOOYDXE

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MYOOYDXEHFJNNDFIA6P5SWYS44 \
  | 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: 661cec0ee43952d68ca8079fd95b12e70d7791e9c59ebb942bc43580f38c985d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e749b2dd340d10b8d30a623fa5dc5e073c0d4e6860617e7b8b647902a8e8c702",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-31T02:29:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "aa6906cd6e6185425b740b154b0a0cf5796198e8029357a4448ba1aa49956900"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.00959",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}