Pith Number

pith:KDEMV4O4

pith:2026:KDEMV4O4TER5VKPFSTFJ4NFSNA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Rewarding Beliefs, Not Actions: Consistency-Guided Credit Assignment for Long-Horizon Agents

Liquan Xiao, Minne Li, Sijie Huang, Wenjie Tang, Yuan Zhou

arxiv:2605.20061 v1 · 2026-05-19 · cs.CL

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KDEMV4O4TER5VKPFSTFJ4NFSNA}

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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	2026-05-20T02:06:00.649842Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

50c8caf1dc9923daa9e594ca9e34b26804eb1680c5defded30e91f7cb34d3414

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.20061 · arxiv_version: 2605.20061v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.20061 · pith_short_12: KDEMV4O4TER5 · pith_short_16: KDEMV4O4TER5VKPF · pith_short_8: KDEMV4O4

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/KDEMV4O4TER5VKPFSTFJ4NFSNA \
  | 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: 50c8caf1dc9923daa9e594ca9e34b26804eb1680c5defded30e91f7cb34d3414

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9db88ca57ced0bd531d3b115f1b53fec14198bfe6a2799cc5c1c9bae817b0e2c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-19T16:19:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "aaaef1e6a57bf70f83d3f93a4a7aada4e52c5c70bfeeae6bbf1645fb77710377"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.20061",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}