Pith Number

pith:LNCIIG4A

pith:2026:LNCIIG4ACLXRBECQ4ZJ56MPFQ7

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The Token Not Taken: Sampling, State, and the Variability of AI Agent Outputs

Muhammad Zia Hydari, Raja Iqbal

arxiv:2606.08998 v1 · 2026-06-08 · cs.AI · cs.CY · econ.GN · q-fin.EC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LNCIIG4ACLXRBECQ4ZJ56MPFQ7}

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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	2026-06-09T02:07:52.704576Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5b44841b8012ef109050e653df31e587c87fe2175d034c8b643a014f7a4c4ebc

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.08998 · arxiv_version: 2606.08998v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.08998 · pith_short_12: LNCIIG4ACLXR · pith_short_16: LNCIIG4ACLXRBECQ · pith_short_8: LNCIIG4A

Agent API

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LNCIIG4ACLXRBECQ4ZJ56MPFQ7 \
  | 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: 5b44841b8012ef109050e653df31e587c87fe2175d034c8b643a014f7a4c4ebc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fe16fe9387db82b55bd7e4bd6aa55f75c6aa496438af250d5ab0bd8265114723",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY",
      "econ.GN",
      "q-fin.EC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-08T03:53:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4f2ceb25b9a89913e92ac30e4eabcc791057cda03db6ecbc76ee53bc39949072"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.08998",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}