Pith Number

pith:K3GIKUET

pith:2026:K3GIKUET6WVFBHCP4V3OGJ7RVC

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Better Together, in the Right Order: Classical-then-LLM Optimization for SE

Srinath Srinivasan, Tim Menzies

arxiv:2607.02583 v1 · 2026-07-01 · cs.SE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{K3GIKUET6WVFBHCP4V3OGJ7RVC}

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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	2026-07-07T00:16:01.603803Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

56cc855093f5aa509c4fe576e327f1a889f2c811bc67d0d4a072d2ccf646996d

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.02583 · arxiv_version: 2607.02583v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.02583 · pith_short_12: K3GIKUET6WVF · pith_short_16: K3GIKUET6WVFBHCP · pith_short_8: K3GIKUET

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/K3GIKUET6WVFBHCP4V3OGJ7RVC \
  | 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: 56cc855093f5aa509c4fe576e327f1a889f2c811bc67d0d4a072d2ccf646996d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "03ec95968e3e615a3f642c2d1598bce771e7253d5826b6d8cd15d2df3d35ee5d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-01T02:32:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "674be9381bf845030128a161ce68698ca9579cdf3f25be0ecda99aa2be94264c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.02583",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}