Pith Number

pith:KHDOHGZH

pith:2026:KHDOHGZHPOIUMCCUVMFCFTPK4E

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Rethinking Self-Evolving Agents: Do We Still Need Prescribed Optimization Pipelines?

Fan Yang, Hui Xue

arxiv:2608.09629 v1 · 2026-08-10 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KHDOHGZHPOIUMCCUVMFCFTPK4E}

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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	2026-08-11T02:24:42.138563Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

51c6e39b277b91460854ab0a22cdeae11e2e05ecd7d57355451bfdd3b111ba79

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.09629 · arxiv_version: 2608.09629v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.09629 · pith_short_12: KHDOHGZHPOIU · pith_short_16: KHDOHGZHPOIUMCCU · pith_short_8: KHDOHGZH

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/KHDOHGZHPOIUMCCUVMFCFTPK4E \
  | 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: 51c6e39b277b91460854ab0a22cdeae11e2e05ecd7d57355451bfdd3b111ba79

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a1b15f20e49254b19a3c265bc2570c2b9df78e2a60994211d3494f520ed9ba0d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-10T14:10:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4d3bfb6aad6c354f31b37709cacc435b0a3e1e2a42ecad08e88b41a4a2598aa0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.09629",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}