Pith Number

pith:VOCGR526

pith:2026:VOCGR5265CRJT7UUHCA5XUZN7Q

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Why Do Few-Step Text Latents Fail When Image Latents Work? Non-Commitment at Sharp Categorical Readouts

Zhongyao Wang

arxiv:2606.30705 v1 · 2026-06-29 · cs.LG · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VOCGR5265CRJT7UUHCA5XUZN7Q}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-07-01T00:17:13.992454Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ab8468f75ee8a299fe943881dbd32dfc2e2f5d26c8e1c5ca5c9973993e9ce013

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.30705 · arxiv_version: 2606.30705v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.30705 · pith_short_12: VOCGR5265CRJ · pith_short_16: VOCGR5265CRJT7UU · pith_short_8: VOCGR526

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VOCGR5265CRJT7UUHCA5XUZN7Q \
  | 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: ab8468f75ee8a299fe943881dbd32dfc2e2f5d26c8e1c5ca5c9973993e9ce013

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a13b36f3cb5ac6ba185a8e89c3ac086d928d3838017a8b92d532dcd892ae2fad",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-29T14:20:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "85eb0e48ff515e36b6d91506fcd3eb763a2d5bccffacaa845e19d03d1198454d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.30705",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}