Pith Number

pith:JZHMX5KE

pith:2026:JZHMX5KECBOMVQQRB3XENASY5V

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Less Back-and-Forth: A Comparative Study of Structured Prompting

Abdou Sow, Gabriella Polach, Saurav Ghosh

arxiv:2605.20149 v1 · 2026-05-19 · cs.CL · cs.AI · cs.HC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JZHMX5KECBOMVQQRB3XENASY5V}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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	2026-05-20T02:06:04.310598Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4e4ecbf544105ccac2110eee468258ed7c53c11ef84a80321d5e461daae1b1fb

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.20149 · arxiv_version: 2605.20149v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.20149 · pith_short_12: JZHMX5KECBOM · pith_short_16: JZHMX5KECBOMVQQR · pith_short_8: JZHMX5KE

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/JZHMX5KECBOMVQQRB3XENASY5V \
  | 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: 4e4ecbf544105ccac2110eee468258ed7c53c11ef84a80321d5e461daae1b1fb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ae4c91274f7f3e84fccec77e6916a96780ba79142458610ca526df34910b8e12",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.HC"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-19T17:40:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4e778505da8deb2b9ed9a958c93822c25b420e5a47fa9e1a60e14f8eb4f46df0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.20149",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}