Pith Number

pith:KKGPIBKE

pith:2026:KKGPIBKEACR6ZKU7FGPRIRYFN3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

When Do Multi-Agent Systems Help? An Information Bottleneck Perspective

Byung-Jun Yoon, Declan Staunton, James Caverlee, Lianhao Zhou, Sai Sudarshan Barath, Shuiwang Ji, Wendi Yu, Xiangjue Dong, Xiaoning Qian

arxiv:2607.16133 v1 · 2026-07-17 · cs.LG · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KKGPIBKEACR6ZKU7FGPRIRYFN3}

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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	2026-07-20T02:19:35.114837Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

528cf4054400a3ecaa9f299f1447056ec173bb962c89ec7d17d8dc3c2b97b4e9

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.16133 · arxiv_version: 2607.16133v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.16133 · pith_short_12: KKGPIBKEACR6 · pith_short_16: KKGPIBKEACR6ZKU7 · pith_short_8: KKGPIBKE

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/KKGPIBKEACR6ZKU7FGPRIRYFN3 \
  | 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: 528cf4054400a3ecaa9f299f1447056ec173bb962c89ec7d17d8dc3c2b97b4e9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0a03a6ee2557546152b7ce5a6033ed27440b2e49a0b4e57c081dca74f3791698",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-17T17:13:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7ba6c5eb612853f1418d53cb5de8e0311e786b9d4daa1a4eb07261466774529e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.16133",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}