Pith Number

pith:ARXE3OKT

pith:2026:ARXE3OKTG5ZW4NDCANOI2R3VRO

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Surprise-Guided MergeSort: Budget-Efficient Human-in-the-Loop Ranking via Adaptive Comparison Scheduling

Haejun Chung, Ikbeom Jang, Yujin Park

arxiv:2606.15623 v2 · 2026-06-14 · cs.LG · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ARXE3OKTG5ZW4NDCANOI2R3VRO}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-06-23T03:13:59.420048Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

046e4db95337736e3462035c8d47758bb99bfb79c906d867e2b7c504d606f439

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.15623 · arxiv_version: 2606.15623v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.15623 · pith_short_12: ARXE3OKTG5ZW · pith_short_16: ARXE3OKTG5ZW4NDC · pith_short_8: ARXE3OKT

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/ARXE3OKTG5ZW4NDCANOI2R3VRO \
  | 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: 046e4db95337736e3462035c8d47758bb99bfb79c906d867e2b7c504d606f439

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e1f56cedde2efa1f8c418acbc59b1fe6dfec38392788bdb5d3e6cea81c6532b8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-14T06:11:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4b62f54876a7fb83f5e2a0432bc1947c1a4d585c6be8de68cf04b5b334b35412"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.15623",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}