Pith Number

pith:OB5753GJ

pith:2026:OB5753GJDDBUR3NHGIJIX7NO4F

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

When Should an AI Scientist Stop? Verifiable Experiment Steering and Refusal for Autonomous Discovery

Manglam Kartik, Neel Tushar Shah

arxiv:2606.07576 v1 · 2026-05-26 · cs.LG · cs.ET · cs.MA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OB5753GJDDBUR3NHGIJIX7NO4F}

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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	2026-06-09T00:04:43.529179Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

707bfeecc918c348eda732128bfdaee15db6784ce2dd49dc81bde1e367f56282

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.07576 · arxiv_version: 2606.07576v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.07576 · pith_short_12: OB5753GJDDBU · pith_short_16: OB5753GJDDBUR3NH · pith_short_8: OB5753GJ

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/OB5753GJDDBUR3NHGIJIX7NO4F \
  | 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: 707bfeecc918c348eda732128bfdaee15db6784ce2dd49dc81bde1e367f56282

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "088495d3217b80bbf856f2117bd67c0fd79c18d320c471ff18c599819ff6a371",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.ET",
      "cs.MA"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-26T18:19:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fbbbd58ca0ee5d390e438cfaf5e0e7adc2ea7441c88b0e7e8ba1f1254bb360e2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.07576",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}