Pith Number

pith:RF2VNCMO

pith:2026:RF2VNCMOGIGKQ4L5SIA6PZ6GQJ

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It's the Decoding Format, Not the Perturbation: Auditing Consistency-Based Selection for Vision-Language Test-Time Scaling

Hasan Kurban, Puzhuo Zheng

arxiv:2608.01207 v1 · 2026-08-02 · cs.CV · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RF2VNCMOGIGKQ4L5SIA6PZ6GQJ}

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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.

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First computed	2026-08-04T02:01:56.335671Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

897556898e320ca8717d9201e7e7c6826d0f84e9788be9267c7ba4f5b77b2225

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.01207 · arxiv_version: 2608.01207v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.01207 · pith_short_12: RF2VNCMOGIGK · pith_short_16: RF2VNCMOGIGKQ4L5 · pith_short_8: RF2VNCMO

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RF2VNCMOGIGKQ4L5SIA6PZ6GQJ \
  | 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: 897556898e320ca8717d9201e7e7c6826d0f84e9788be9267c7ba4f5b77b2225

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "27c3ecd248821c1865d0b50da3f022576e8c1266de73eefa6eed708f7eb9439f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CV",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-02T12:47:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e3bbb84b872bdc4ff2bc77a8344a08bb17f8d1aa5e2bb11a2dd121e70318e042"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.01207",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}