Pith Number

pith:74Z7J2GM

pith:2026:74Z7J2GMZ7ETSAF6PJ3KHHSZZE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Completion vs Optimality: Policy Gradient in Long-Horizon Cumulative-Damage Problems

Sabine Janzen, Wolfgang Maass

arxiv:2605.26657 v1 · 2026-05-26 · cs.AI

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{74Z7J2GMZ7ETSAF6PJ3KHHSZZE}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-27T01:06:04.358468Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ff33f4e8cccfc93900be7a76a39e59c9299920211c1578502600084124ac1d2b

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.26657 · arxiv_version: 2605.26657v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.26657 · pith_short_12: 74Z7J2GMZ7ET · pith_short_16: 74Z7J2GMZ7ETSAF6 · pith_short_8: 74Z7J2GM

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/74Z7J2GMZ7ETSAF6PJ3KHHSZZE \
  | 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: ff33f4e8cccfc93900be7a76a39e59c9299920211c1578502600084124ac1d2b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4529e9c2b63395c8324c3123ea3abb9fc96fed42166eb3eb3d286912d55cbdd7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-26T07:43:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f2e0bd4639d7d224bbc9dd8c6b78d263a2b1252edc988e84616725bbf570b2b3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.26657",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}