Pith Number

pith:MHLROCFY

pith:2026:MHLROCFYWABZEGQ36RDNS44XSZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Recompute or Reuse? Diagnosing and Mitigating Textual Shortcuts in VLM Self-Reflection

Fang Li, Gu Simiu, Jingling Fu, Junshi Huang, Kan Li, Lichen Ma, Luohang Liu, Weishan Bi, Wenxiao Fan, Yan Li, Yu He, Zhiyang Yu

arxiv:2608.01930 v1 · 2026-08-03 · cs.CV · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MHLROCFYWABZEGQ36RDNS44XSZ}

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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	2026-08-04T02:07:45.942873Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

61d71708b8b003921a1bf446d973979658b7112f79877896d68c72e791258ae1

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.01930 · arxiv_version: 2608.01930v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.01930 · pith_short_12: MHLROCFYWABZ · pith_short_16: MHLROCFYWABZEGQ3 · pith_short_8: MHLROCFY

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/MHLROCFYWABZEGQ36RDNS44XSZ \
  | 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: 61d71708b8b003921a1bf446d973979658b7112f79877896d68c72e791258ae1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "04e6ca9e0be0e2f8d565db4bc5369c353f8e393c0907eb60ff56ff410d0bb6ee",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CV",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-03T09:02:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f3e2f3ad3c8502e2c41a260d14d13d63a4a97f3c51f11ff45a2ca2c0fd4129b1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.01930",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}