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pith:2026:R7CZR3DMOGYOYCXIBMVIGFWBR5

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The Cost of Reasoning: Chain-of-Thought Induces Overconfidence in Vision-Language Models

Emir Konuk, Kevin Smith, Robert Welch

arxiv:2603.16728 v2 · 2026-03-17 · cs.LG

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First computed	2026-07-14T01:20:56.478083Z
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8fc598ec6c71b0ec0ae80b2a8316c18f5fc9aa843790d5d42f8efb214d61f7f9

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arxiv: 2603.16728 · arxiv_version: 2603.16728v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2603.16728 · pith_short_12: R7CZR3DMOGYO · pith_short_16: R7CZR3DMOGYOYCXI · pith_short_8: R7CZR3DM

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/R7CZR3DMOGYOYCXIBMVIGFWBR5 \
  | 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())"
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