Pith Number

pith:CQ5ZABAA

pith:2026:CQ5ZABAAQDPPRM4DY7E3TPN5DZ

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Less Is More: Tuning Configurable Systems with Imperfect Fidelity

Miqing Li, Tao Chen, Yulong Ye

arxiv:2608.00759 v1 · 2026-08-01 · cs.SE · cs.AI · cs.DB · cs.PF

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CQ5ZABAAQDPPRM4DY7E3TPN5DZ}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-08-04T01:54:53.307948Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

143b90040080def8b383c7c9b9bdbd1e7d17162fad55f43c90de809fff8bdc3d

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.00759 · arxiv_version: 2608.00759v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.00759 · pith_short_12: CQ5ZABAAQDPP · pith_short_16: CQ5ZABAAQDPPRM4D · pith_short_8: CQ5ZABAA

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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/CQ5ZABAAQDPPRM4DY7E3TPN5DZ \
  | 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: 143b90040080def8b383c7c9b9bdbd1e7d17162fad55f43c90de809fff8bdc3d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "eb2cbb136d6b7599e380dfbbe73a0ba205d35e3f70ef93a52c31bd4d32ad0260",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.DB",
      "cs.PF"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-01T16:42:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5b87562c0e480ef4158ec90c1f4cabfd6adc2c34f48f3582ad7d18ccf2a86bec"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.00759",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}