Pith Number

pith:2LVRQ2A7

pith:2026:2LVRQ2A7OWCZLJHBZQFQ77BHCE

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Asking the Right Questions: Improving Reasoning with Generated Stepping Stones

Alexander H Miller, Hengyuan Hu, Jakob Nicolaus Foerster, Minqi Jiang, Tingchen Fu, Yoram Bachrach

arxiv:2602.19069 v2 · 2026-02-22 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2LVRQ2A7OWCZLJHBZQFQ77BHCE}

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4 Citations open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-20T00:00:34.992597Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d2eb18681f758595a4e1cc0b0ffc271110134b1a49390a400889b9d0cc5550cc

Aliases

arxiv: 2602.19069 · arxiv_version: 2602.19069v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2602.19069 · pith_short_12: 2LVRQ2A7OWCZ · pith_short_16: 2LVRQ2A7OWCZLJHB · pith_short_8: 2LVRQ2A7

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/2LVRQ2A7OWCZLJHBZQFQ77BHCE \
  | 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: d2eb18681f758595a4e1cc0b0ffc271110134b1a49390a400889b9d0cc5550cc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fafe06f7115f6d0176ba298d5485102e4d7dcc06897dec3a104b80e1bb27fcec",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-02-22T06:54:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "88582b41b160ac96075d81683b359a71320ff3a5a0cf598cb741c8064f650242"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2602.19069",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}