Pith Number

pith:2CV62COY

pith:2026:2CV62COYVFQ3RKJA4JOSIYCJZC

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In-Context Optimization for Retrieval-Augmented Generation: A Gradient-Descent Perspective

Chuxu Zhang, Hong Yu, Jiatan Huang, Liang Zhao, Mingchen Li

arxiv:2605.26356 v1 · 2026-05-25 · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2CV62COYVFQ3RKJA4JOSIYCJZC}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-27T01:05:13.699625Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d0abed09d8a961b8a920e25d246049c88176fd8c5930fe14fd405f418ee26a3d

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.26356 · arxiv_version: 2605.26356v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.26356 · pith_short_12: 2CV62COYVFQ3 · pith_short_16: 2CV62COYVFQ3RKJA · pith_short_8: 2CV62COY

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/2CV62COYVFQ3RKJA4JOSIYCJZC \
  | 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: d0abed09d8a961b8a920e25d246049c88176fd8c5930fe14fd405f418ee26a3d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c6568352bf2180316b7e0319512023e0fb064fa8f87d199a25b506e6c2aae59b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-25T22:04:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4c69978fe51f55b782f4b1e5e3268ffa67050e4e174efaa188aafa78f29af923"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.26356",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}