Pith Number

pith:5KKTXIYE

pith:2026:5KKTXIYEEOLB7UF35FVYPBHMFN

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Context, Reasoning, and Hierarchy: A Cost-Performance Study of Compound LLM Agent Design in an Adversarial POMDP

Adrian Taylor, Chung-Horng Lung, Igor Bogdanov, Jie Gao, Marzia Zaman, Thomas Kunz

arxiv:2605.16205 v1 · 2026-05-15 · cs.AI · cs.CL · cs.LG · cs.MA · cs.SY · eess.SY

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5KKTXIYEEOLB7UF35FVYPBHMFN}

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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	2026-05-20T00:01:57.956233Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ea953ba30423961fd0bbe96b8784ec2b48c959f6daf9f201c01907944fc57450

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.16205 · arxiv_version: 2605.16205v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.16205 · pith_short_12: 5KKTXIYEEOLB · pith_short_16: 5KKTXIYEEOLB7UF3 · pith_short_8: 5KKTXIYE

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/5KKTXIYEEOLB7UF35FVYPBHMFN \
  | 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: ea953ba30423961fd0bbe96b8784ec2b48c959f6daf9f201c01907944fc57450

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "44da153a72e03f4b4499a21d996a6e362e143acf051041bfbf0752dbac7b1276",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL",
      "cs.LG",
      "cs.MA",
      "cs.SY",
      "eess.SY"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-15T17:23:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8cbe518ab30a67be125b300c5e8197d743eb34f24d293388de38c5b82326b05d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.16205",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}