Pith Number

pith:I5RNUMAK

pith:2026:I5RNUMAK7RTU5VKTVRGWJDQ4NS

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Multi-agent AI systems outperform human teams in creativity

David Stillwell, Haotian Li, Jos\'e Hern\'andez-Orallo, Luning Sun, Nigel Collier, Tiancheng Hu, Xing Xie, Yixuan Jiang

arxiv:2605.17885 v1 · 2026-05-18 · cs.CL · cs.AI

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First computed	2026-05-20T00:05:03.651003Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4762da300afc674ed553ac4d648e1c6c9147823a98639c872064165463af012b

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.17885 · arxiv_version: 2605.17885v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.17885 · pith_short_12: I5RNUMAK7RTU · pith_short_16: I5RNUMAK7RTU5VKT · pith_short_8: I5RNUMAK

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/I5RNUMAK7RTU5VKTVRGWJDQ4NS \
  | 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: 4762da300afc674ed553ac4d648e1c6c9147823a98639c872064165463af012b

Canonical record JSON

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      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-18T05:52:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5b7830c7df152a707b227c66e098301e2415f85b310303b5b94c6a4f3c338c6b"
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  }
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