Pith Number

pith:3QLI34WS

pith:2026:3QLI34WSPI5QGNP6MRXI5WJ6QY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

When Visual Evidence is Ambiguous: Pareidolia as a Diagnostic Probe for Vision Models

Derya Soydaner, Qianpu Chen, Rob Saunders

arxiv:2603.03989 v2 · 2026-03-04 · cs.CV · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3QLI34WSPI5QGNP6MRXI5WJ6QY}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-07-22T01:23:37.637656Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dc168df2d27a3b0335fe646e8ed93e861be0d12074250474bae8a7f5c522d6ee

Aliases

arxiv: 2603.03989 · arxiv_version: 2603.03989v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2603.03989 · pith_short_12: 3QLI34WSPI5Q · pith_short_16: 3QLI34WSPI5QGNP6 · pith_short_8: 3QLI34WS

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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/3QLI34WSPI5QGNP6MRXI5WJ6QY \
  | 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: dc168df2d27a3b0335fe646e8ed93e861be0d12074250474bae8a7f5c522d6ee

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b296d4f6ab027047fdb881e3724ccc951e3d98629685dca4f0dd3104cba3e317",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CV",
    "submitted_at": "2026-03-04T12:33:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1d3bf2665aefacd3d776e39018f9ee352ad0dcc0ff12d9fa6435515a39f8d877"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2603.03989",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}