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pith:NPKJA5VN

pith:2026:NPKJA5VN3H4NDID6D744RVNIP4

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Aligning Large Vision-Language Models at Test Time: A Trajectory-Guided Structured Sampling Approach

Gerard de Melo, Linlin Wang, Tianbao Jiang, Weicong Ni

arxiv:2608.03204 v1 · 2026-08-04 · cs.CL · cs.AI

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First computed	2026-08-05T00:46:09.929165Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6bd49076add9f8d1a07e1ff9c8d5a87f0d0fa546e0967f9aed7bd99e06996f7e

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arxiv: 2608.03204 · arxiv_version: 2608.03204v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.03204 · pith_short_12: NPKJA5VN3H4N · pith_short_16: NPKJA5VN3H4NDID6 · pith_short_8: NPKJA5VN

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NPKJA5VN3H4NDID6D744RVNIP4 \
  | 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: 6bd49076add9f8d1a07e1ff9c8d5a87f0d0fa546e0967f9aed7bd99e06996f7e

Canonical record JSON

{
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    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a15a1370ec5982d255fbea0e0d0378f47ef31357945dd39ab0ebb72111ddfc6c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-04T06:47:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "108058e5ee814b48eb5428a85666c30f8880ffc9106ae2da2f981c5f5d353286"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.03204",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}