Pith Number

pith:T6L6RL3U

pith:2026:T6L6RL3U3N3QBRXKPUZHK3DZWW

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The Scaffold Effect: How Prompt Framing Drives Apparent Multimodal Gains in Clinical VLM Evaluation

Doan Nam Long Vu, Simone Balloccu

arxiv:2603.28387 v2 · 2026-03-30 · cs.AI · cs.LG

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\pithnumber{T6L6RL3U3N3QBRXKPUZHK3DZWW}

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First computed	2026-06-19T16:12:53.614602Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9f97e8af74db7700c6ea7d32756c79b5840587c8b5721dad60280cf980906e29

Aliases

arxiv: 2603.28387 · arxiv_version: 2603.28387v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2603.28387 · pith_short_12: T6L6RL3U3N3Q · pith_short_16: T6L6RL3U3N3QBRXK · pith_short_8: T6L6RL3U

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/T6L6RL3U3N3QBRXKPUZHK3DZWW \
  | 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: 9f97e8af74db7700c6ea7d32756c79b5840587c8b5721dad60280cf980906e29

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-03-30T12:58:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "696a6aa444c6f5b578686bf278a53391e5a5eef6c48606530a90db84afa1ac96"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}