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pith:7HAXDK4Z

pith:2026:7HAXDK4ZUOACMUPRUKJGBNGJUK
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How Many Counterfactuals Does It Take? Probing VLM Hallucinations Through Circuits and Causal Effects

Abhivansh Gupta, Advika Sinha, Akshat Tomar, Shreyansh Modi, Simardeep Singh

arxiv:2606.08777 v1 · 2026-06-07 · cs.LG · cs.AI

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First computed 2026-06-09T02:07:38.870383Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05) · public key
Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f9c171ab99a3802651f1a29260b4c9a296ba7d65dfdb76a85511530fb7b355f1

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.08777 · arxiv_version: 2606.08777v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.08777 · pith_short_12: 7HAXDK4ZUOAC · pith_short_16: 7HAXDK4ZUOACMUPR · pith_short_8: 7HAXDK4Z
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/7HAXDK4ZUOACMUPRUKJGBNGJUK \
  | 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: f9c171ab99a3802651f1a29260b4c9a296ba7d65dfdb76a85511530fb7b355f1
Canonical record JSON
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    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-07T18:45:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7a7fa9bbf139d13efd45473c298d648a7d96e4f5c870315667ca8453a794d7bb"
  },
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  "source": {
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  }
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