Pith Number

pith:EDS4IEIJ

pith:2026:EDS4IEIJLTPD6OULJZTW5MCFWC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Is VLA Reasoning Faithful? Probing Safety of Chain-of-Causation

Nicanor Mayumu, Patrick Mukala, Xiaoheng Deng

arxiv:2605.17268 v1 · 2026-05-17 · cs.AI · cs.CV · cs.RO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EDS4IEIJLTPD6OULJZTW5MCFWC}

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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	2026-05-20T00:03:48.906786Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

20e5c411095cde3f3a8b4e676eb045b09a1e11b4b53a68b256b60c7982016046

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.17268 · arxiv_version: 2605.17268v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.17268 · pith_short_12: EDS4IEIJLTPD · pith_short_16: EDS4IEIJLTPD6OUL · pith_short_8: EDS4IEIJ

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/EDS4IEIJLTPD6OULJZTW5MCFWC \
  | 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: 20e5c411095cde3f3a8b4e676eb045b09a1e11b4b53a68b256b60c7982016046

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "416940bfd8dfbe91a608a613ed86657de3462aeafc4a607ada53106853f5b928",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CV",
      "cs.RO"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-17T05:29:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "38e574f28dff6277896e67e42a1f39d7bf459a82b1ce24550bcf99fb03ff3e73"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.17268",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}