Pith Number

pith:VCAFVAQJ

pith:2026:VCAFVAQJJYLXE6ZTBCWKL532OB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Attention Without Grounding: Causal Evaluation of Visual Explanations in Medical VLMs

Binesh Sadanandan, Vahid Behzadan

arxiv:2607.18577 v1 · 2026-07-20 · cs.CV

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VCAFVAQJJYLXE6ZTBCWKL532OB}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-07-22T00:22:55.066342Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a8805a82094e17727b3308aca5f77a7073906a7c90b041d997545af48c3d27c2

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.18577 · arxiv_version: 2607.18577v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.18577 · pith_short_12: VCAFVAQJJYLX · pith_short_16: VCAFVAQJJYLXE6ZT · pith_short_8: VCAFVAQJ

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VCAFVAQJJYLXE6ZTBCWKL532OB \
  | 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: a8805a82094e17727b3308aca5f77a7073906a7c90b041d997545af48c3d27c2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dd6eb7bb77642c9b435ae9c91cd6a0fc6eca575f256869a967841d06bf368694",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CV",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-20T23:19:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1dc22a83fe0b7cbeba9c5be9ad12eb0505480a6f72f34d8af89c1d099caab44b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.18577",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}