Pith Number

pith:IHSHHZTF

pith:2026:IHSHHZTFII7IIP5XZYE4EPQ7W7

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Workflow Closure Is Not Scientific Closure in Auto-Research Systems

Pangpang Liu, Shuai Wang, Xinyuan Tian, Yize Zhao

arxiv:2605.26200 v1 · 2026-05-25 · cs.SE · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IHSHHZTFII7IIP5XZYE4EPQ7W7}

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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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First computed	2026-05-27T00:04:28.538406Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

41e473e665423e843fb7ce09c23e1fb7fa69b0b18c0c15578b186d6d5b6fc454

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.26200 · arxiv_version: 2605.26200v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.26200 · pith_short_12: IHSHHZTFII7I · pith_short_16: IHSHHZTFII7IIP5X · pith_short_8: IHSHHZTF

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/IHSHHZTFII7IIP5XZYE4EPQ7W7 \
  | 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: 41e473e665423e843fb7ce09c23e1fb7fa69b0b18c0c15578b186d6d5b6fc454

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "535a8e5c5e8496ba8711bba36a87bc4d8c6381cad9a5eaa6934f51afa6ec078d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-25T17:16:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1365f2c0a2fb6b3eae8c06b34ee849313dba891afe47fdc7a12faee73ea71def"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.26200",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}