Pith Number

pith:SSRMBP7D

pith:2026:SSRMBP7DUQPRO3AOWNMVPSBRJ3

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When Thinking Hurts: Epistemic Signals in the Reasoning Chains of Visual Language Models

Mayank Singal

arxiv:2607.08059 v1 · 2026-07-09 · cs.LG · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SSRMBP7DUQPRO3AOWNMVPSBRJ3}

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First computed	2026-07-10T00:19:09.262598Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

94a2c0bfe3a41f176c0eb35957c8314ee9d8ec09148fa875eb1803c19614f0a4

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.08059 · arxiv_version: 2607.08059v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.08059 · pith_short_12: SSRMBP7DUQPR · pith_short_16: SSRMBP7DUQPRO3AO · pith_short_8: SSRMBP7D

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/SSRMBP7DUQPRO3AOWNMVPSBRJ3 \
  | 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: 94a2c0bfe3a41f176c0eb35957c8314ee9d8ec09148fa875eb1803c19614f0a4

Canonical record JSON

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    "abstract_canon_sha256": "471adb48261e858ff0840a47c3e2306c6e1581a5fcac127b023198725cd43759",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-09T02:19:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f877aff6fb4822fc6aeb611ddee007a15c6d5ca8cdca2c536d0107a36e3c2f55"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.08059",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}