Pith Number

pith:HJZZBNXV

pith:2026:HJZZBNXVRTCYCKBLBYWGH4ZQBY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Ill-Posed by Design: Probing Evidence Use in VLMs

Boaz Meivar, Eli Schwartz, Shai Avidan, Shaked Perek, Shani Shvartzman

arxiv:2606.24335 v1 · 2026-06-23 · cs.CV

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HJZZBNXVRTCYCKBLBYWGH4ZQBY}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-06-24T01:14:50.437202Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3a7390b6f58cc581282b0e2c63f3300e0eacee10f2bbe121ea062a8544ed540f

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.24335 · arxiv_version: 2606.24335v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.24335 · pith_short_12: HJZZBNXVRTCY · pith_short_16: HJZZBNXVRTCYCKBL · pith_short_8: HJZZBNXV

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/HJZZBNXVRTCYCKBLBYWGH4ZQBY \
  | 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: 3a7390b6f58cc581282b0e2c63f3300e0eacee10f2bbe121ea062a8544ed540f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d1815a00db7d71c2dd2a1d84b4647440a0f1695a3b5268a346ba9e6cdf9585e6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CV",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-23T09:20:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "697edfe2e86edd65fd3fec4906543a478ff6cf21e43d4979377b6138fcc94081"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.24335",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}