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pith:EPPQCY3A

pith:2026:EPPQCY3AM7AEDY2H24YHNGQZPY

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Brand-as-Memory: Vision-Language Models Encode Causal, Mechanistically Localizable Credibility Priors for News Sources

Chih-Ting Liao, Xin Cao

arxiv:2607.03365 v1 · 2026-07-03 · cs.CV · cs.AI

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First computed	2026-07-07T02:17:39.615149Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

23df01636067c041e347d730769a197e1613b0f12db685763890fe17965122b7

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.03365 · arxiv_version: 2607.03365v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.03365 · pith_short_12: EPPQCY3AM7AE · pith_short_16: EPPQCY3AM7AEDY2H · pith_short_8: EPPQCY3A

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/EPPQCY3AM7AEDY2H24YHNGQZPY \
  | 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: 23df01636067c041e347d730769a197e1613b0f12db685763890fe17965122b7

Canonical record JSON

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      "cs.AI"
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    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CV",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-03T14:22:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "85233db932d0c59044687dfa2a7b0db586cb421b70c03e54dfc89f798253ea59"
  },
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