Pith Number

pith:NQCRQ7SS

pith:2026:NQCRQ7SS53WWSIA4ICKG35CVAK

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Are VLMs Seeing or Just Saying? Uncovering the Illusion of Visual Re-examination

Bo Shui, Cheng Yang, Chufan Shi, Linhao Jin, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Xuezhe Ma, Yaokang Wu

arxiv:2605.15864 v1 · 2026-05-15 · cs.CV · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NQCRQ7SS53WWSIA4ICKG35CVAK}

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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	2026-05-20T00:01:22.624428Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6c05187e52eeed69201c40946df45502b4fed49b16cbec68dcb6ab6b00d31215

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.15864 · arxiv_version: 2605.15864v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.15864 · pith_short_12: NQCRQ7SS53WW · pith_short_16: NQCRQ7SS53WWSIA4 · pith_short_8: NQCRQ7SS

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NQCRQ7SS53WWSIA4ICKG35CVAK \
  | 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: 6c05187e52eeed69201c40946df45502b4fed49b16cbec68dcb6ab6b00d31215

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "86f3393a6321c6e95043c168947a4e47ab6b310fd626741a982526511807e533",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CV",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-15T11:31:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "38b73dc822a2e665b465a7df570b6035e20eac5e1c5ea02d0d741315d93bcf15"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.15864",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}