Pith Number

pith:6HEWO3MI

pith:2026:6HEWO3MIXCYTVUMPVOCRBAAXKW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Taming "Zombie'' Agents: A Markov State-Aware Framework for Resilient Multi-Agent Evolution

Chen Chen, Chengyu Wang, Jiuheng Wan, Pukun Zhao, Qizhou Chen, Richang Hong, Taolin Zhang, Xiaofeng He

arxiv:2605.17348 v1 · 2026-05-17 · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6HEWO3MIXCYTVUMPVOCRBAAXKW}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-20T00:03:53.519578Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f1c9676d88b8b13ad18fab8510801755b374c125933ea12270be8336f9d7c823

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.17348 · arxiv_version: 2605.17348v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.17348 · pith_short_12: 6HEWO3MIXCYT · pith_short_16: 6HEWO3MIXCYTVUMP · pith_short_8: 6HEWO3MI

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6HEWO3MIXCYTVUMPVOCRBAAXKW \
  | 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: f1c9676d88b8b13ad18fab8510801755b374c125933ea12270be8336f9d7c823

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8bae48a3b4471c8ef0502935402da200ee6017616437a0936f60145563b3beba",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-17T09:38:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "da5e6a931fc9c5f53c0d991f1abbe07670f76be0060662438b0f7cd02068bd63"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.17348",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}