Pith Number

pith:U5J2IAXM

pith:2026:U5J2IAXMDRDW3P5IFATJJNAPLN

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When to Align, When to Predict: A Phase Diagram for Multimodal Learning

Aviv Regev, Hagai B. Perets, Hugues Van Assel, Ilay Kamai, Randall Balestriero

arxiv:2606.11190 v1 · 2026-06-09 · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{U5J2IAXMDRDW3P5IFATJJNAPLN}

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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	2026-06-10T02:12:49.194981Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a753a402ec1c476dbfa8282694b40f5b4dcc87a14774f43b87b82c0d812d2399

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.11190 · arxiv_version: 2606.11190v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.11190 · pith_short_12: U5J2IAXMDRDW · pith_short_16: U5J2IAXMDRDW3P5I · pith_short_8: U5J2IAXM

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/U5J2IAXMDRDW3P5IFATJJNAPLN \
  | 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: a753a402ec1c476dbfa8282694b40f5b4dcc87a14774f43b87b82c0d812d2399

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9c2408ba046196c4211754566ef1bfb81709edcc04fdda294dc3ce111d405108",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-09T17:59:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f0554c21d24d7f03f06405973245500862a90b523f74eda56620de394f400622"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.11190",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}