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pith:2025:KK4FGJ3IIGDYUTD47K3AGRDZXR

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How Multimodal LLMs Solve Image Tasks: A Lens on Visual Grounding, Task Reasoning, and Answer Decoding

Yong Jae Lee, Zhuoran Yu

arxiv:2508.20279 v1 · 2025-08-27 · cs.CV · cs.AI · cs.CL

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First computed	2026-07-05T12:00:33.471300Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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52b853276841878a4c7cfab6034479bc6dccfe844f53838ea7fae36bf554917e

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arxiv: 2508.20279 · arxiv_version: 2508.20279v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2508.20279 · pith_short_12: KK4FGJ3IIGDY · pith_short_16: KK4FGJ3IIGDYUTD4 · pith_short_8: KK4FGJ3I

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/KK4FGJ3IIGDYUTD47K3AGRDZXR \
  | 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: 52b853276841878a4c7cfab6034479bc6dccfe844f53838ea7fae36bf554917e

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    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
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    "submitted_at": "2025-08-27T21:22:01Z",
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