Pith Number

pith:PCUROFJ3

pith:2026:PCUROFJ3NP2BXPM6BK2AMSCFQV

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Second-Order Multi-Level Variance Correction for Modality Competition in Multimodal Models

Wes Armour, Yishun Lu

arxiv:2605.16165 v1 · 2026-05-15 · cs.CV · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PCUROFJ3NP2BXPM6BK2AMSCFQV}

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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	2026-05-20T00:01:55.739517Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

78a917153b6bf41bbd9e0ab4064845855d063da1352f286aef200709c7c6d198

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.16165 · arxiv_version: 2605.16165v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.16165 · pith_short_12: PCUROFJ3NP2B · pith_short_16: PCUROFJ3NP2BXPM6 · pith_short_8: PCUROFJ3

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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/PCUROFJ3NP2BXPM6BK2AMSCFQV \
  | 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: 78a917153b6bf41bbd9e0ab4064845855d063da1352f286aef200709c7c6d198

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "048bf64fb3cae2100c666ac2543e088f5fb77258e21dfceb7c6df187d8ab69a9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CV",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-15T16:45:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a3f0d08d59584d1d45999f076501f46bbf2b9074d9a494d614601bf5ccfb85d1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.16165",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}