Pith Number

pith:UN5IUIUM

pith:2026:UN5IUIUMYQDSP4CKJJ4NQBG5N7

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When Do Fewer Visual Tokens Accelerate Multimodal Inference? A Break-Even Study Across Decision Locations and Hardware

Hao Dou, Ruiwen Tian

arxiv:2608.03649 v1 · 2026-08-04 · cs.CV

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UN5IUIUMYQDSP4CKJJ4NQBG5N7}

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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	2026-08-05T01:36:49.206328Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a37a8a228cc40727f04a4a78d804dd6fcf3f0cd81d5cbd4d382e2176389ef668

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.03649 · arxiv_version: 2608.03649v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.03649 · pith_short_12: UN5IUIUMYQDS · pith_short_16: UN5IUIUMYQDSP4CK · pith_short_8: UN5IUIUM

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/UN5IUIUMYQDSP4CKJJ4NQBG5N7 \
  | 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: a37a8a228cc40727f04a4a78d804dd6fcf3f0cd81d5cbd4d382e2176389ef668

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CV",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-04T13:33:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a057c9bcff11d65b7d46ecbe7e0c7332d138c77a710450c8a50af00ccb8cb59e"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}