Pith Number

pith:RTXNDOKK

pith:2026:RTXNDOKKOWV6WXFYA64UE6MCYX

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Reading is not Reasoning: Bridging the Agentic Policy Gap in Vision-Text Compression

Cheng Fan, Hanting Chen, Jianyuan Guo, Junyi Zhou, Mingjian Zhu, Qiyanhui Lu, Rongjian Xu, Tingzhang Luo

arxiv:2608.08960 v1 · 2026-08-09 · cs.AI

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\pithnumber{RTXNDOKKOWV6WXFYA64UE6MCYX}

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First computed	2026-08-11T01:25:50.758197Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8ceed1b94a75abeb5cb807b9427982c5c4b8dc889660e17cb3947586a3320e24

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.08960 · arxiv_version: 2608.08960v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.08960 · pith_short_12: RTXNDOKKOWV6 · pith_short_16: RTXNDOKKOWV6WXFY · pith_short_8: RTXNDOKK

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RTXNDOKKOWV6WXFYA64UE6MCYX \
  | 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: 8ceed1b94a75abeb5cb807b9427982c5c4b8dc889660e17cb3947586a3320e24

Canonical record JSON

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    "abstract_canon_sha256": "98fea4d990d5831e83c28a9a3328aad695d47dc1380d513588540d382edd8153",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-09T23:38:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "94096318c860c37f9ce055f152bf1807b740c59ade1b513b969fdca19e3336c0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.08960",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}