Pith Number

pith:JNUUVQJ3

pith:2026:JNUUVQJ3UUKSIG3VDEYKUACYY5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Recovering Wasted Compute in Autoresearch Agents

Abhigyan Acherjee, Amrutha Rao, Au Kwok Chun, C. Bayan Bruss, Kazem Meidani, Micah Goldblum, Zaiqian Chen

arxiv:2608.10424 v1 · 2026-08-11 · cs.AI · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JNUUVQJ3UUKSIG3VDEYKUACYY5}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-08-12T01:22:26.175666Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4b694ac13ba515241b751930aa0058c748bb1c33708d434238e68951e726fd86

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.10424 · arxiv_version: 2608.10424v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.10424 · pith_short_12: JNUUVQJ3UUKS · pith_short_16: JNUUVQJ3UUKSIG3V · pith_short_8: JNUUVQJ3

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/JNUUVQJ3UUKSIG3VDEYKUACYY5 \
  | 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: 4b694ac13ba515241b751930aa0058c748bb1c33708d434238e68951e726fd86

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "59f5215fb9f73463003744240ad3c9d9066eb19823f4a06ed88f3dd5f8156224",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-11T03:15:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a459de38699e5d72f7a9be0fa9954bd78665043252232e1589e65ca5aaa14dc5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.10424",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}