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Paper Citation Record · LEDGER
The Illusion of Visual Tool-Use: A Causal Audit of Thinking with Images
As of 9 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 43 of 43 outbound references and 0 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2608.06270.
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Pith citing papers itemized under the disclosed page cap.
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Reference resolution
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The Illusion of Visual Tool-Use: A Causal Audit of Thinking with Images Unresolved cited work
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The Illusion of Visual Tool-Use: A Causal Audit of Thinking with Images 2025 , howpublished =
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Observation 1e13f45a-d8c0-465c-a485-2713fee1672c · outbound
This paper cites DeepEyes: Incentivizing "Thinking with Images" via Reinforcement Learning.
The Illusion of Visual Tool-Use: A Causal Audit of Thinking with Images DeepEyes: Incentivizing "Thinking with Images" via Reinforcement Learning
Reference 3
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Observation 412906a5-5883-4b22-a25d-22af31da8d07 · outbound
This paper cites Pixel Reasoner: Incentivizing Pixel-Space Reasoning with Curiosity-Driven Reinforcement Learning.
The Illusion of Visual Tool-Use: A Causal Audit of Thinking with Images Pixel Reasoner: Incentivizing Pixel-Space Reasoning with Curiosity-Driven Reinforcement Learning
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This paper cites Mini-o3: Scaling Up Reasoning Patterns and Interaction Turns for Visual Search.
The Illusion of Visual Tool-Use: A Causal Audit of Thinking with Images Mini-o3: Scaling Up Reasoning Patterns and Interaction Turns for Visual Search
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Observation be34feac-cd66-4ded-9b50-32ed519f3027 · outbound
This paper cites What Does Vision Tool-Use Reinforcement Learning Really Learn? Disentangling Tool-Induced and Intrinsic Effects for Crop-and-Zoom.
The Illusion of Visual Tool-Use: A Causal Audit of Thinking with Images What Does Vision Tool-Use Reinforcement Learning Really Learn? Disentangling Tool-Induced and Intrinsic Effects for Crop-and-Zoom
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Observation a6cafb6f-b69e-4b27-99ad-2131c0621706 · outbound
This paper cites DeFacto: Counterfactual Thinking with Images for Enforcing Evidence-Grounded and Faithful Reasoning.
The Illusion of Visual Tool-Use: A Causal Audit of Thinking with Images DeFacto: Counterfactual Thinking with Images for Enforcing Evidence-Grounded and Faithful Reasoning
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Observation 0c6e19d9-db7e-46a8-9b44-f114773d0874 · outbound
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The Illusion of Visual Tool-Use: A Causal Audit of Thinking with Images arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.19661 , year=
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The Illusion of Visual Tool-Use: A Causal Audit of Thinking with Images 2009 , publisher=
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Observation ac89f470-a781-4639-8b05-49a4cd408c23 · outbound
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The Illusion of Visual Tool-Use: A Causal Audit of Thinking with Images arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.11858 , year=
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Observation ba54487f-f432-4870-8f2f-789a998a80ea · outbound
This paper cites Thinking with Images for Multimodal Reasoning: Foundations, Methods, and Future Frontiers.
The Illusion of Visual Tool-Use: A Causal Audit of Thinking with Images Thinking with Images for Multimodal Reasoning: Foundations, Methods, and Future Frontiers
Reference 11
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Observation ec32dbb7-ffc0-41e3-81f0-fca869658ccf · outbound
This paper cites Proceedings of the Seventeenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) , pages=.
The Illusion of Visual Tool-Use: A Causal Audit of Thinking with Images Proceedings of the Seventeenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) , pages=
Reference 12
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Observation 84159bc3-ac52-4650-8579-f2dadf991ac9 · outbound
This paper cites Proceedings of the 19th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) , pages=.
The Illusion of Visual Tool-Use: A Causal Audit of Thinking with Images Proceedings of the 19th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) , pages=
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Observation 98b253b2-cf11-4b7b-82e8-005bb6ae4f23 · outbound
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The Illusion of Visual Tool-Use: A Causal Audit of Thinking with Images Epidemiology , volume=
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The Illusion of Visual Tool-Use: A Causal Audit of Thinking with Images The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations , year=
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The Illusion of Visual Tool-Use: A Causal Audit of Thinking with Images arXiv:2602.20739 , year=
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Observation 264a6113-9ed7-4a24-bbd7-6731aa790176 · outbound
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The Illusion of Visual Tool-Use: A Causal Audit of Thinking with Images Unresolved cited work
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Observation 1f61b166-7c9d-4a01-af62-604704d3b874 · outbound
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The Illusion of Visual Tool-Use: A Causal Audit of Thinking with Images Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence , volume=
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The Illusion of Visual Tool-Use: A Causal Audit of Thinking with Images 2025 , url=
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Observation 898bd717-1f9f-4162-a602-cc10558ba74b · outbound
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The Illusion of Visual Tool-Use: A Causal Audit of Thinking with Images Qwen3-VL Technical Report
Reference 20
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The Illusion of Visual Tool-Use: A Causal Audit of Thinking with Images Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems , year=
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Observation 8b6b82c6-0891-4365-831c-b9a7feef4f99 · outbound
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The Illusion of Visual Tool-Use: A Causal Audit of Thinking with Images Measuring Faithfulness in Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
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Observation f89b7cfe-c052-4eed-b1f7-e45d2b181d0c · outbound
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The Illusion of Visual Tool-Use: A Causal Audit of Thinking with Images International Conference on Machine Learning , pages=
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Observation 493a2e97-06cd-4bcf-97da-6f6b4d13dc21 · outbound
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The Illusion of Visual Tool-Use: A Causal Audit of Thinking with Images Chain-of-Thought Unfaithfulness as Disguised Accuracy
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Observation 6bd6de40-fcb5-4de8-8f69-801dc5b248fa · outbound
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The Illusion of Visual Tool-Use: A Causal Audit of Thinking with Images Let's Verify Step by Step
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The Illusion of Visual Tool-Use: A Causal Audit of Thinking with Images Solving math word problems with process- and outcome-based feedback
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The Illusion of Visual Tool-Use: A Causal Audit of Thinking with Images ACL , year=
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Observation 6c571a97-648f-4766-b645-73d809e823d8 · outbound
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The Illusion of Visual Tool-Use: A Causal Audit of Thinking with Images Rewarding Progress: Scaling Automated Process Verifiers for LLM Reasoning
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The Illusion of Visual Tool-Use: A Causal Audit of Thinking with Images TACO: Tool-Augmented Credit Optimization for Agentic Tool Use
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The Illusion of Visual Tool-Use: A Causal Audit of Thinking with Images arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.23031 , year=
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The Illusion of Visual Tool-Use: A Causal Audit of Thinking with Images The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations , year=
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The Illusion of Visual Tool-Use: A Causal Audit of Thinking with Images Aho and Jeffrey D
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The Illusion of Visual Tool-Use: A Causal Audit of Thinking with Images Chandra and Dexter C
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The Illusion of Visual Tool-Use: A Causal Audit of Thinking with Images Scalable training of
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The Illusion of Visual Tool-Use: A Causal Audit of Thinking with Images Tetreault , title =
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The Illusion of Visual Tool-Use: A Causal Audit of Thinking with Images A Framework for Learning Predictive Structures from Multiple Tasks and Unlabeled Data , Volume =
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The Illusion of Visual Tool-Use: A Causal Audit of Thinking with Images arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.01827 , year=
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The Illusion of Visual Tool-Use: A Causal Audit of Thinking with Images Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing , pages=
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The Illusion of Visual Tool-Use: A Causal Audit of Thinking with Images International Conference on Learning Representations , volume=
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The Illusion of Visual Tool-Use: A Causal Audit of Thinking with Images Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025 , pages=
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The Illusion of Visual Tool-Use: A Causal Audit of Thinking with Images Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024 , pages=
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