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pith:SUJTJKVC

pith:2026:SUJTJKVCMCXEMICCFH6T4QKAX2

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Position, Not Provenance: Separating Reasoning Mediation from Sycophancy in Medical Vision-Language Models

Anik Pal Chowdhury, Aritra Gir Mahanta, Subhrajyoti Basu, Supratik Bhowal

arxiv:2607.27304 v1 · 2026-07-29 · cs.LG · cs.CV

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First computed	2026-07-31T00:10:33.323334Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	unsigned_v0
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

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951334aaa260ae46204229fd3e4140beac16ee7568cf4568cff44a3aacb8c462

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arxiv: 2607.27304 · arxiv_version: 2607.27304v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.27304 · pith_short_12: SUJTJKVCMCXE · pith_short_16: SUJTJKVCMCXEMICC · pith_short_8: SUJTJKVC

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/SUJTJKVCMCXEMICCFH6T4QKAX2 \
  | 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: 951334aaa260ae46204229fd3e4140beac16ee7568cf4568cff44a3aacb8c462

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