Pith Number

pith:VLJ5Y4F3

pith:2026:VLJ5Y4F3FPA5LJNPOZMDA7R2S2

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Rate-Utility Frontiers for Language Encodings: Comparing Tokens, Bytes, and Pixels Under Controlled Linguistic Content

Desmond Elliott, Ingo Ziegler, Martin Krebs

arxiv:2607.16117 v1 · 2026-07-17 · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VLJ5Y4F3FPA5LJNPOZMDA7R2S2}

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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	2026-07-20T02:19:34.341061Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aad3dc70bb2bc1d5a5af7658307e3a9683ce4b59c4969926b32c422792241af3

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.16117 · arxiv_version: 2607.16117v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.16117 · pith_short_12: VLJ5Y4F3FPA5 · pith_short_16: VLJ5Y4F3FPA5LJNP · pith_short_8: VLJ5Y4F3

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/VLJ5Y4F3FPA5LJNPOZMDA7R2S2 \
  | 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: aad3dc70bb2bc1d5a5af7658307e3a9683ce4b59c4969926b32c422792241af3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "34ebff2d672bd251bbb92c7e4cf1302992e01528cc9e53b1ad77e129b65b70d7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-17T16:55:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "619ef7c0aeda9ee4089882217c6b15711752c95c0e3a6213b21ecabca86b6b7d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.16117",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}