Pith Number

pith:LHIRNJFR

pith:2026:LHIRNJFRSBMVYNBG4C2K4RMY43

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Latent Heuristic Search: Continuous Optimization for Automated Algorithm Design

Cheikh Ahmed, Mahdi Mostajabdaveh, Zirui Zhou

arxiv:2605.17137 v1 · 2026-05-16 · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LHIRNJFRSBMVYNBG4C2K4RMY43}

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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	2026-05-20T00:03:41.677783Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

59d116a4b190595c3426e0b4ae4598e6c3d729b63531375ac85b89e753b4d47d

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.17137 · arxiv_version: 2605.17137v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.17137 · pith_short_12: LHIRNJFRSBMV · pith_short_16: LHIRNJFRSBMVYNBG · pith_short_8: LHIRNJFR

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/LHIRNJFRSBMVYNBG4C2K4RMY43 \
  | 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: 59d116a4b190595c3426e0b4ae4598e6c3d729b63531375ac85b89e753b4d47d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b64444242a0e7053ce46084f46a000f45f0af9cf838425e8ab07d0d2967ec466",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-16T20:03:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ac53556abfcb9f5ba16deadf8b7678bdc134098c76d4ca1cf22edd4dce133f7b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.17137",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}