Pith Number

pith:E36JSH7B

pith:2026:E36JSH7BZN5K5RUTX3UTWGKHDA

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From Heuristic Selection to Automated Algorithm Design: LLMs Benefit from Strong Priors

Ananta Shahane, Furong Ye, Niki van Stein, Qi Huang, Thomas B\"ack

arxiv:2603.02792 v2 · 2026-03-03 · cs.LG · cs.NE

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\pithnumber{E36JSH7BZN5K5RUTX3UTWGKHDA}

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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.

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Breaking Validity-Induced Boundaries to Expand Algorithm Search Space: A Two-Stage AST-Based Operator for LLM-Driven Automated Heuristic Evolution

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-21T01:20:44.734189Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

26fc991fe1cb7aaec693bee93b1947182537fb558f7ae006e0c30accf704df71

Aliases

arxiv: 2603.02792 · arxiv_version: 2603.02792v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2603.02792 · pith_short_12: E36JSH7BZN5K · pith_short_16: E36JSH7BZN5K5RUT · pith_short_8: E36JSH7B

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/E36JSH7BZN5K5RUTX3UTWGKHDA \
  | 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: 26fc991fe1cb7aaec693bee93b1947182537fb558f7ae006e0c30accf704df71

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c2bcc70c557b08d1bc7449ac4f457b8ea3c3e68104a14b530ddca97ac87ab03c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.NE"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-03-03T09:27:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5dcbcaea7ce192fe7757a4dda52e8a2abcdef4b91972eae9504559ff3b7d55de"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2603.02792",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}