Pith Number

pith:6OF6E4HH

pith:2026:6OF6E4HH3JF42DQTZOBK72I3UK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Illusion of Multi-Agent Advantage

Chengwei Qin, Chuyuan Li, Fangkai Jiao, Giuseppe Carenini, Hehai Lin, Prathyusha Jwalapuram, Shafiq Joty, Sudong Wang, Yifei Ming, Zixuan Ke

arxiv:2606.13003 v1 · 2026-06-11 · cs.AI · cs.CL · cs.MA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6OF6E4HH3JF42DQTZOBK72I3UK}

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-06-12T01:09:36.721757Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f38be270e7da4bcd0e13cb82afe91ba2a8e419de09911090af7503933d8ddc6a

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.13003 · arxiv_version: 2606.13003v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.13003 · pith_short_12: 6OF6E4HH3JF4 · pith_short_16: 6OF6E4HH3JF42DQT · pith_short_8: 6OF6E4HH

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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/6OF6E4HH3JF42DQTZOBK72I3UK \
  | 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: f38be270e7da4bcd0e13cb82afe91ba2a8e419de09911090af7503933d8ddc6a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1997cdefe13400f003a56db3c0d7cd249288ca3f930c429a4b9dc89dc6e78baa",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL",
      "cs.MA"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-11T07:39:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2ef5c3a869465e32e51225d45c87231c73876ff59d37c605d7db00e71e53f123"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.13003",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}