Pith Number

pith:F3BPLTQZ

pith:2026:F3BPLTQZ2CCY577QPEB73XWIVM

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Artificial collectives of specialists and generalists excel at different tasks

Christoph Riedl, H. Oliver Gao, John Meluso, Laurent H\'ebert-Dufresne

arxiv:2606.20877 v1 · 2026-06-18 · cs.MA · cs.AI · cs.SI · nlin.AO · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{F3BPLTQZ2CCY577QPEB73XWIVM}

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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	2026-06-23T00:12:01.527775Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2ec2f5ce19d0858efff07903fddec8ab3cf6e9b2f69932bd058ab12fc9f56e83

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.20877 · arxiv_version: 2606.20877v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.20877 · pith_short_12: F3BPLTQZ2CCY · pith_short_16: F3BPLTQZ2CCY577Q · pith_short_8: F3BPLTQZ

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/F3BPLTQZ2CCY577QPEB73XWIVM \
  | 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: 2ec2f5ce19d0858efff07903fddec8ab3cf6e9b2f69932bd058ab12fc9f56e83

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "12f58d4457d11991fe652643c33ed5433bd90ad02ed75afa9c16dc398e01e5d6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.SI",
      "nlin.AO",
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.MA",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-18T19:08:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1f86ad28dbc7011a1f9da1c1162eb7b23cc932b58fb6d14679daca9bd52a6953"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.20877",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}