Pith Number

pith:BYEWVJHL

pith:2026:BYEWVJHLLJSBAFBYZQHW53ZP4H

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Beyond Outcome Rewards: Step-Level Self-Distilled Policy Optimization for Deep Search Agents

Chuqiao Kuang, Haoze Wu, Tianyi Zhuang, Xiaoguang Li

arxiv:2608.12764 v1 · 2026-08-13 · cs.LG · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BYEWVJHLLJSBAFBYZQHW53ZP4H}

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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	2026-08-14T00:47:38.315530Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0e096aa4eb5a64101438cc0f6eef2fe1c26117a5794fede18ec4e1bc1c79e23a

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.12764 · arxiv_version: 2608.12764v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.12764 · pith_short_12: BYEWVJHLLJSB · pith_short_16: BYEWVJHLLJSBAFBY · pith_short_8: BYEWVJHL

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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/BYEWVJHLLJSBAFBYZQHW53ZP4H \
  | 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: 0e096aa4eb5a64101438cc0f6eef2fe1c26117a5794fede18ec4e1bc1c79e23a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "483c37c13df48f095cdf2bd9dfe85105c2ba5890a677f231492782606ffc4753",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-13T03:13:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0117130cc66b40fcaa32c9bc10da7fe09a7dad78f1b065dd32c9a15d01d44f97"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.12764",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}