Pith Number

pith:IFGXB6KD

pith:2026:IFGXB6KDPQGJRHVEBZFZ23OU2J

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Vector Policy Optimization: Training for Diversity Improves Test-Time Search

Akarsh Kumar, Idan Shenfeld, Isha Puri, Mehul Damani, Omar Khattab, Pulkit Agrawal, Ryan Bahlous-Boldi, Sebastian Risi, Zhang-Wei Hong

arxiv:2605.22817 v1 · 2026-05-21 · cs.LG · cs.AI · cs.CL · cs.NE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IFGXB6KDPQGJRHVEBZFZ23OU2J}

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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	2026-05-22T02:04:56.205978Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

414d70f9437c0c989ea40e4b9d6dd4d263ee05bac92ab2688fe9fad14ede34e5

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.22817 · arxiv_version: 2605.22817v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.22817 · pith_short_12: IFGXB6KDPQGJ · pith_short_16: IFGXB6KDPQGJRHVE · pith_short_8: IFGXB6KD

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/IFGXB6KDPQGJRHVEBZFZ23OU2J \
  | 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: 414d70f9437c0c989ea40e4b9d6dd4d263ee05bac92ab2688fe9fad14ede34e5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0e89ae17f489b27004868273bdcff22eaf6b8025b58f3176a58c9deb5564eb0f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.CL",
      "cs.NE"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-21T17:59:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8c9e6f0d44355a96cbaa52663e5e25cdc827d4e9666d21ed80d6e497be03dd25"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.22817",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}