Pith Number

pith:PO5E5JHD

pith:2026:PO5E5JHDNLRF5RF5SXQL3TLW2E

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Do vision-language models search like humans? Reasoning tokens as a reaction-time analog in classic visual-search paradigms

Farahnaz Wick

arxiv:2606.25066 v1 · 2026-06-23 · cs.AI · cs.CV

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PO5E5JHDNLRF5RF5SXQL3TLW2E}

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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	2026-06-25T00:18:16.815054Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7bba4ea4e36ae25ec4bd95e0bdcd76d139fe91783e3fdf0dfdf5e4f9a14c46bb

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.25066 · arxiv_version: 2606.25066v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.25066 · pith_short_12: PO5E5JHDNLRF · pith_short_16: PO5E5JHDNLRF5RF5 · pith_short_8: PO5E5JHD

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/PO5E5JHDNLRF5RF5SXQL3TLW2E \
  | 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: 7bba4ea4e36ae25ec4bd95e0bdcd76d139fe91783e3fdf0dfdf5e4f9a14c46bb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "92df1fe907cca62991b143b0c7e837619dcc839d37f6010500bd71ee960b9a63",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CV"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-23T18:19:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e9cb51bb30f156537f6574aea4e61946f15e11d4b1a80ce8e8265c4b1a73feb3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.25066",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}