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pith:OHLYRMV6

pith:2026:OHLYRMV64NY7IWUMJOPP3ZVGES

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Understanding the Challenges in Iterative Generative Optimization with LLMs

Abhinav Akkiraju, Adith Swaminathan, Allen Nie, Anish Chaudhuri, Ching-An Cheng, Max Piasevoli, Prerit Choudhary, Rasool Fakoor, Ryan Rong, Shannon Xiao, Xavier Daull, YuCheng Yuan, Zhiyi Kuang

arxiv:2603.23994 v2 · 2026-03-25 · cs.LG · cs.AI

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First computed	2026-05-27T02:06:13.854235Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

71d788b2bee371f45a8c4b9efde6a62485a4b18c0efa461894642142172b0798

Aliases

arxiv: 2603.23994 · arxiv_version: 2603.23994v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2603.23994 · pith_short_12: OHLYRMV64NY7 · pith_short_16: OHLYRMV64NY7IWUM · pith_short_8: OHLYRMV6

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/OHLYRMV64NY7IWUMJOPP3ZVGES \
  | 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: 71d788b2bee371f45a8c4b9efde6a62485a4b18c0efa461894642142172b0798

Canonical record JSON

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    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-03-25T06:49:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "417bb8c841b4abce63f45b0d0f823b90d8053ff8c86ce95dc488de71f512ce46"
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