Pith Number

pith:JWQT7JRU

pith:2026:JWQT7JRUZYE5GUXGWE34F4FXZ3

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Stabilized Best-of-$K$ Training for Neural Combinatorial Optimization

Melveena Jolly, Midhun Xavier

arxiv:2608.00296 v1 · 2026-07-31 · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JWQT7JRUZYE5GUXGWE34F4FXZ3}

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4 Citations open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-08-04T00:34:56.183267Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4da13fa634ce09d352e6b137c2f0b7cec2d8a26d6f364304ae5b51c6012b9ae6

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.00296 · arxiv_version: 2608.00296v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.00296 · pith_short_12: JWQT7JRUZYE5 · pith_short_16: JWQT7JRUZYE5GUXG · pith_short_8: JWQT7JRU

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/JWQT7JRUZYE5GUXGWE34F4FXZ3 \
  | 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: 4da13fa634ce09d352e6b137c2f0b7cec2d8a26d6f364304ae5b51c6012b9ae6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c4e2b8995a39d8bf2442bdf84c503db748f62e1e0b1b08c251e54401f08c9600",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-31T21:11:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6e8763dfb16c4bb73af157987da7fb7bda664392a258235fee0bec7b2907d995"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.00296",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}