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pith:TCI6GFR6

pith:2026:TCI6GFR6VYM44GXCJSBWURRNHT

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Causal Scaffolding for Physical Reasoning: A Benchmark for Causally-Informed Physical World Understanding in VLMs

Haiyan Yin, Ivor Tsang, Tianyi Ma, Tianyi Tang, Yew-Soon Ong, Zeyu Feng, Zhuoyi Lin

arxiv:2606.05966 v1 · 2026-06-04 · cs.DB · cs.AI

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First computed	2026-06-05T01:15:28.990773Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9891e3163eae19ce1ae24c836a462d3cd26f6dbe6baa32f71ef813cc0b498c40

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.05966 · arxiv_version: 2606.05966v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.05966 · pith_short_12: TCI6GFR6VYM4 · pith_short_16: TCI6GFR6VYM44GXC · pith_short_8: TCI6GFR6

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/TCI6GFR6VYM44GXCJSBWURRNHT \
  | 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: 9891e3163eae19ce1ae24c836a462d3cd26f6dbe6baa32f71ef813cc0b498c40

Canonical record JSON

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      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DB",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-04T10:07:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e76a1c536299f95c20220bc6dd6bcab677c8faafaaf3ee7cb3e58e8898d1ad60"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}