{"bundle_type":"pith_open_graph_bundle","bundle_version":"1.0","pith_number":"pith:2026:NBRZOARXTS224KYZZZR2CYP3RA","short_pith_number":"pith:NBRZOARX","canonical_record":{"source":{"id":"2607.17786","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"metadata":{"license":"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","primary_cat":"cs.RO","submitted_at":"2026-07-20T10:20:32Z","cross_cats_sorted":["cs.AI","cs.CR","cs.LG"],"title_canon_sha256":"3310cc877c7e0c36b4fa513552de3ab2e1720f64a65c14dac9857d22931c2e9e","abstract_canon_sha256":"d6b88df2273140550001e4531e2ac1f1900679ccce36bf50091c985ff5d010e6"},"schema_version":"1.0"},"canonical_sha256":"68639702379cb5ae2b19ce63a161fb881c40856812ac172b9820fe6031f84115","source":{"kind":"arxiv","id":"2607.17786","version":1},"source_aliases":[{"alias_kind":"arxiv","alias_value":"2607.17786","created_at":"2026-07-21T02:22:00Z"},{"alias_kind":"arxiv_version","alias_value":"2607.17786v1","created_at":"2026-07-21T02:22:00Z"},{"alias_kind":"doi","alias_value":"10.48550/arxiv.2607.17786","created_at":"2026-07-21T02:22:00Z"},{"alias_kind":"pith_short_12","alias_value":"NBRZOARXTS22","created_at":"2026-07-21T02:22:00Z"},{"alias_kind":"pith_short_16","alias_value":"NBRZOARXTS224KYZ","created_at":"2026-07-21T02:22:00Z"},{"alias_kind":"pith_short_8","alias_value":"NBRZOARX","created_at":"2026-07-21T02:22:00Z"}],"events":[{"event_type":"record_created","subject_pith_number":"pith:2026:NBRZOARXTS224KYZZZR2CYP3RA","target":"record","payload":{"canonical_record":{"source":{"id":"2607.17786","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"metadata":{"license":"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","primary_cat":"cs.RO","submitted_at":"2026-07-20T10:20:32Z","cross_cats_sorted":["cs.AI","cs.CR","cs.LG"],"title_canon_sha256":"3310cc877c7e0c36b4fa513552de3ab2e1720f64a65c14dac9857d22931c2e9e","abstract_canon_sha256":"d6b88df2273140550001e4531e2ac1f1900679ccce36bf50091c985ff5d010e6"},"schema_version":"1.0"},"canonical_sha256":"68639702379cb5ae2b19ce63a161fb881c40856812ac172b9820fe6031f84115","receipt":{"kind":"pith_receipt","key_id":"pith-v1-2026-05","algorithm":"ed25519","signed_at":"2026-07-21T02:22:00.090565Z","signature_b64":"PjoDL3sH3NIt+UKDyBmQdIvs3eIRs7q4iKjrELWSZj6KGZUHPwBJY8HUiQM85x6W0aH4XFgTtn4R55kcnUI1CQ==","signed_message":"canonical_sha256_bytes","builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1","receipt_version":"0.3","canonical_sha256":"68639702379cb5ae2b19ce63a161fb881c40856812ac172b9820fe6031f84115","last_reissued_at":"2026-07-21T02:22:00.089698Z","signature_status":"signed_v1","first_computed_at":"2026-07-21T02:22:00.089698Z","public_key_fingerprint":"8d4b5ee74e4693bcd1df2446408b0d54"},"source_kind":"arxiv","source_id":"2607.17786","source_version":1,"attestation_state":"computed"},"signer":{"signer_id":"pith.science","signer_type":"pith_registry","key_id":"pith-v1-2026-05","public_key_fingerprint":"8d4b5ee74e4693bcd1df2446408b0d54"},"created_at":"2026-07-21T02:22:00Z","supersedes":[],"prev_event":null,"signature":{"signature_status":"signed_v1","algorithm":"ed25519","key_id":"pith-v1-2026-05","public_key_fingerprint":"8d4b5ee74e4693bcd1df2446408b0d54","signature_b64":"gu/8x9+1EICLNRFy76J2UnaOwPYnvAKVLRlY9/e4wOvEWUqCnUWxTS7CHtg+W0bbgYGTT4UQsmFjEWKn3vJPCw==","signed_message":"open_graph_event_sha256_bytes","signed_at":"2026-08-16T21:15:37.243862Z"},"content_sha256":"971a4aa0912a8e1788b98d8549be9a45009e2ded6e287e7df12dab3c812d44ad","schema_version":"1.0","event_id":"sha256:971a4aa0912a8e1788b98d8549be9a45009e2ded6e287e7df12dab3c812d44ad"},{"event_type":"graph_snapshot","subject_pith_number":"pith:2026:NBRZOARXTS224KYZZZR2CYP3RA","target":"graph","payload":{"graph_snapshot":{"paper":{"title":"Reasoning as a Double-Edged Sword: Architecture and Cross-Stage Robustness in Vision-Language-Action Models","license":"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["cs.AI","cs.CR","cs.LG"],"primary_cat":"cs.RO","authors_text":"Basim Azam, Naveed Akhtar, Tuan Duong Trinh","submitted_at":"2026-07-20T10:20:32Z","abstract_excerpt":"Does adding a reasoning step make a Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model more robust to perturbation? Intuitively, a policy that reasons before acting should absorb a perturbed input better than one that maps observations directly to actions. We test this premise head-on across three models that span the reasoning spectrum (no reasoning, a text chain-of-thought, and a latent iterative loop), perturbing each at the vision, reasoning, and action stages on LIBERO and SimplerEnv. Two questions organize the study: does the reasoning design shift robustness, and can the reasoning be read back at runti"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"2607.17786","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"integrity":{"clean":true,"summary":{"advisory":0,"critical":0,"by_detector":{},"informational":0},"endpoint":"/pith/2607.17786/integrity.json","findings":[],"available":true,"detectors_run":[],"snapshot_sha256":"c28c3603d3b5d939e8dc4c7e95fa8dfce3d595e45f758748cecf8e644a296938"},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"},"verdict_id":null},"signer":{"signer_id":"pith.science","signer_type":"pith_registry","key_id":"pith-v1-2026-05","public_key_fingerprint":"8d4b5ee74e4693bcd1df2446408b0d54"},"created_at":"2026-07-21T02:22:00Z","supersedes":[],"prev_event":null,"signature":{"signature_status":"signed_v1","algorithm":"ed25519","key_id":"pith-v1-2026-05","public_key_fingerprint":"8d4b5ee74e4693bcd1df2446408b0d54","signature_b64":"e9jiiSoZq+p6uhI3KR177VjjHDOFW7OXjShAmKVs5UQJiKSyF2B2Gz2w/WwTViMFOWnX/OGIoJKMZ5LYaIzyCw==","signed_message":"open_graph_event_sha256_bytes","signed_at":"2026-08-16T21:15:37.244758Z"},"content_sha256":"b4a9c135c66582b7a672e0550077b537df4cea4207a3101c647f18d30d3b771b","schema_version":"1.0","event_id":"sha256:b4a9c135c66582b7a672e0550077b537df4cea4207a3101c647f18d30d3b771b"}],"timestamp_proofs":[],"mirror_hints":[{"mirror_type":"https","name":"Pith Resolver","base_url":"https://pith.science","bundle_url":"https://pith.science/pith/NBRZOARXTS224KYZZZR2CYP3RA/bundle.json","state_url":"https://pith.science/pith/NBRZOARXTS224KYZZZR2CYP3RA/state.json","well_known_bundle_url":"https://pith.science/.well-known/pith/NBRZOARXTS224KYZZZR2CYP3RA/bundle.json","status":"primary"}],"public_keys":[{"key_id":"pith-v1-2026-05","algorithm":"ed25519","format":"raw","public_key_b64":"stVStoiQhXFxp4s2pdzPNoqVNBMojDU/fJ2db5S3CbM=","public_key_hex":"b2d552b68890857171a78b36a5dccf368a953413288c353f7c9d9d6f94b709b3","fingerprint_sha256_b32_first128bits":"RVFV5Z2OI2J3ZUO7ERDEBCYNKS","fingerprint_sha256_hex":"8d4b5ee74e4693bcd1df2446408b0d54","rotates_at":null,"url":"https://pith.science/pith-signing-key.json","notes":"Pith uses this Ed25519 key to sign canonical record SHA-256 digests. Verify with: ed25519_verify(public_key, message=canonical_sha256_bytes, signature=base64decode(signature_b64))."}],"merge_version":"pith-open-graph-merge-v1","built_at":"2026-08-16T21:15:37Z","links":{"resolver":"https://pith.science/pith/NBRZOARXTS224KYZZZR2CYP3RA","bundle":"https://pith.science/pith/NBRZOARXTS224KYZZZR2CYP3RA/bundle.json","state":"https://pith.science/pith/NBRZOARXTS224KYZZZR2CYP3RA/state.json","well_known_bundle":"https://pith.science/.well-known/pith/NBRZOARXTS224KYZZZR2CYP3RA/bundle.json"},"state":{"state_type":"pith_open_graph_state","state_version":"1.0","pith_number":"pith:2026:NBRZOARXTS224KYZZZR2CYP3RA","merge_version":"pith-open-graph-merge-v1","event_count":2,"valid_event_count":2,"invalid_event_count":0,"equivocation_count":0,"current":{"canonical_record":{"metadata":{"abstract_canon_sha256":"d6b88df2273140550001e4531e2ac1f1900679ccce36bf50091c985ff5d010e6","cross_cats_sorted":["cs.AI","cs.CR","cs.LG"],"license":"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","primary_cat":"cs.RO","submitted_at":"2026-07-20T10:20:32Z","title_canon_sha256":"3310cc877c7e0c36b4fa513552de3ab2e1720f64a65c14dac9857d22931c2e9e"},"schema_version":"1.0","source":{"id":"2607.17786","kind":"arxiv","version":1}},"source_aliases":[{"alias_kind":"arxiv","alias_value":"2607.17786","created_at":"2026-07-21T02:22:00Z"},{"alias_kind":"arxiv_version","alias_value":"2607.17786v1","created_at":"2026-07-21T02:22:00Z"},{"alias_kind":"doi","alias_value":"10.48550/arxiv.2607.17786","created_at":"2026-07-21T02:22:00Z"},{"alias_kind":"pith_short_12","alias_value":"NBRZOARXTS22","created_at":"2026-07-21T02:22:00Z"},{"alias_kind":"pith_short_16","alias_value":"NBRZOARXTS224KYZ","created_at":"2026-07-21T02:22:00Z"},{"alias_kind":"pith_short_8","alias_value":"NBRZOARX","created_at":"2026-07-21T02:22:00Z"}],"graph_snapshots":[{"event_id":"sha256:b4a9c135c66582b7a672e0550077b537df4cea4207a3101c647f18d30d3b771b","target":"graph","created_at":"2026-07-21T02:22:00Z","signer":{"key_id":"pith-v1-2026-05","public_key_fingerprint":"8d4b5ee74e4693bcd1df2446408b0d54","signer_id":"pith.science","signer_type":"pith_registry"},"payload":{"graph_snapshot":{"author_claims":{"count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","strong_count":0},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1","claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"integrity":{"available":true,"clean":true,"detectors_run":[],"endpoint":"/pith/2607.17786/integrity.json","findings":[],"snapshot_sha256":"c28c3603d3b5d939e8dc4c7e95fa8dfce3d595e45f758748cecf8e644a296938","summary":{"advisory":0,"by_detector":{},"critical":0,"informational":0}},"paper":{"abstract_excerpt":"Does adding a reasoning step make a Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model more robust to perturbation? Intuitively, a policy that reasons before acting should absorb a perturbed input better than one that maps observations directly to actions. We test this premise head-on across three models that span the reasoning spectrum (no reasoning, a text chain-of-thought, and a latent iterative loop), perturbing each at the vision, reasoning, and action stages on LIBERO and SimplerEnv. Two questions organize the study: does the reasoning design shift robustness, and can the reasoning be read back at runti","authors_text":"Basim Azam, Naveed Akhtar, Tuan Duong Trinh","cross_cats":["cs.AI","cs.CR","cs.LG"],"headline":"","license":"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","primary_cat":"cs.RO","submitted_at":"2026-07-20T10:20:32Z","title":"Reasoning as a Double-Edged Sword: Architecture and Cross-Stage Robustness in Vision-Language-Action Models"},"references":{"count":0,"internal_anchors":0,"resolved_work":0,"sample":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"2607.17786","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"created_at":null,"id":null,"model_set":{},"one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"pith_extraction_headline":"","strongest_claim":"","weakest_assumption":""}},"verdict_id":null}}],"author_attestations":[],"timestamp_anchors":[],"storage_attestations":[],"citation_signatures":[],"replication_records":[],"corrections":[],"mirror_hints":[],"record_created":{"event_id":"sha256:971a4aa0912a8e1788b98d8549be9a45009e2ded6e287e7df12dab3c812d44ad","target":"record","created_at":"2026-07-21T02:22:00Z","signer":{"key_id":"pith-v1-2026-05","public_key_fingerprint":"8d4b5ee74e4693bcd1df2446408b0d54","signer_id":"pith.science","signer_type":"pith_registry"},"payload":{"attestation_state":"computed","canonical_record":{"metadata":{"abstract_canon_sha256":"d6b88df2273140550001e4531e2ac1f1900679ccce36bf50091c985ff5d010e6","cross_cats_sorted":["cs.AI","cs.CR","cs.LG"],"license":"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","primary_cat":"cs.RO","submitted_at":"2026-07-20T10:20:32Z","title_canon_sha256":"3310cc877c7e0c36b4fa513552de3ab2e1720f64a65c14dac9857d22931c2e9e"},"schema_version":"1.0","source":{"id":"2607.17786","kind":"arxiv","version":1}},"canonical_sha256":"68639702379cb5ae2b19ce63a161fb881c40856812ac172b9820fe6031f84115","receipt":{"algorithm":"ed25519","builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1","canonical_sha256":"68639702379cb5ae2b19ce63a161fb881c40856812ac172b9820fe6031f84115","first_computed_at":"2026-07-21T02:22:00.089698Z","key_id":"pith-v1-2026-05","kind":"pith_receipt","last_reissued_at":"2026-07-21T02:22:00.089698Z","public_key_fingerprint":"8d4b5ee74e4693bcd1df2446408b0d54","receipt_version":"0.3","signature_b64":"PjoDL3sH3NIt+UKDyBmQdIvs3eIRs7q4iKjrELWSZj6KGZUHPwBJY8HUiQM85x6W0aH4XFgTtn4R55kcnUI1CQ==","signature_status":"signed_v1","signed_at":"2026-07-21T02:22:00.090565Z","signed_message":"canonical_sha256_bytes"},"source_id":"2607.17786","source_kind":"arxiv","source_version":1}}},"equivocations":[],"invalid_events":[],"applied_event_ids":["sha256:971a4aa0912a8e1788b98d8549be9a45009e2ded6e287e7df12dab3c812d44ad","sha256:b4a9c135c66582b7a672e0550077b537df4cea4207a3101c647f18d30d3b771b"],"state_sha256":"7c66734ab2671aa8ed03b32ed9b577d977bdfdf8d660ad7cbf3a32724fed44c8"},"bundle_signature":{"signature_status":"signed_v1","algorithm":"ed25519","key_id":"pith-v1-2026-05","public_key_fingerprint":"8d4b5ee74e4693bcd1df2446408b0d54","signature_b64":"qtHhpfbln+tMKLBVxVD1AbwG/zrA4a/gOkJbXaUirjrAZwHYMB5rRuRlCdYgkkSNUYYbKUxwAsxUdCA+QMNjDw==","signed_message":"bundle_sha256_bytes","signed_at":"2026-08-16T21:15:37.250636Z","bundle_sha256":"ffca0e192b110ad02506573ba36965018ecb3a04e3e878b1c587fecf32b2dcb9"}}