Pith Number

pith:P7QAZEZN

pith:2026:P7QAZEZNIY5UXHCZBS43BQT5X7

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Not Worth Another Token: Marginal Value Estimation for Efficient Deep Research Agents

Evan William Ciccarelli, Franck Dernoncourt, Harshitha Kolukuluru, Kirat Arora, Lunyiu Nie, Nedim Lipka, Nischal Ashok Kumar, Reshma Ashok, Ryan A. Rossi, Samyadeep Basu

arxiv:2608.08389 v1 · 2026-08-09 · cs.AI · cs.IR · cs.MA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{P7QAZEZNIY5UXHCZBS43BQT5X7}

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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	2026-08-11T01:22:30.720647Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7fe00c932d463b4b9c590cb9b0c27dbfd522bc922bef7ff47fa21318fc373f18

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.08389 · arxiv_version: 2608.08389v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.08389 · pith_short_12: P7QAZEZNIY5U · pith_short_16: P7QAZEZNIY5UXHCZ · pith_short_8: P7QAZEZN

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/P7QAZEZNIY5UXHCZBS43BQT5X7 \
  | 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: 7fe00c932d463b4b9c590cb9b0c27dbfd522bc922bef7ff47fa21318fc373f18

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1c0dc747c7974ae157860b7afdb7c7eaf65a55ece8696e0d5851970661498833",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IR",
      "cs.MA"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-09T00:56:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e7da52a7bd862e30af0e97e8d39a9cfc8e266b1c0e76ba59f1a4cded5304ad00"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.08389",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}