Pith Number

pith:36NPVMZX

pith:2025:36NPVMZXJERDM3WOZPFW4COSWV

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How Can Input Reformulation Improve Tool Usage Accuracy in a Complex Dynamic Environment? A Study on $\tau$-bench

Ali Payani, Amir Saeidi, Chitta Baral, Gaowen Liu, Jayanth Srinivasa, Mutsumi Nakamura, Satyam Raj, Venkatesh Mishra

arxiv:2508.20931 v2 · 2025-08-28 · cs.CL

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Self-Evolution for Multi-Turn Tool-Calling Agents via Divergence-Point Preference Learning

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First computed	2026-07-05T12:02:51.684436Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

df9afab3374922366ececbcb6e09d2b56027d503db0bc424ee63c69f35af2724

Aliases

arxiv: 2508.20931 · arxiv_version: 2508.20931v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2508.20931 · pith_short_12: 36NPVMZXJERD · pith_short_16: 36NPVMZXJERDM3WO · pith_short_8: 36NPVMZX

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/36NPVMZXJERDM3WOZPFW4COSWV \
  | 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: df9afab3374922366ececbcb6e09d2b56027d503db0bc424ee63c69f35af2724

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9dae32430fcec83cf184f379d421588cea4636c3553b95ac6fae9d637f343ea9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2025-08-28T15:57:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b6217394cf02009a4b92a8475e62317f142d80133de6413e047e5593496bb4b2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2508.20931",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}