Pith Number

pith:RVEKDVNX

pith:2025:RVEKDVNXKAVBMTHLTS6RNXOUCZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Learning-Based TSP-Solvers Tend to Be Overly Greedy

Shihua Zhang, Xiayang Li

arxiv:2502.00767 v1 · 2025-02-02 · cs.LG · cs.AI · cs.DS

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RVEKDVNXKAVBMTHLTS6RNXOUCZ}

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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	2026-07-05T10:08:38.232141Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8d48a1d5b7502a164ceb9cbd16ddd41669260080a66bfac9d1bf217275448a04

Aliases

arxiv: 2502.00767 · arxiv_version: 2502.00767v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2502.00767 · pith_short_12: RVEKDVNXKAVB · pith_short_16: RVEKDVNXKAVBMTHL · pith_short_8: RVEKDVNX

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/RVEKDVNXKAVBMTHLTS6RNXOUCZ \
  | 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: 8d48a1d5b7502a164ceb9cbd16ddd41669260080a66bfac9d1bf217275448a04

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fb61cdd692370f41c06c9da7c7e9e1a50fa950518c917e997cc7bbd5311da25a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.DS"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2025-02-02T12:06:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4e524573c3ec9ba624db3ee055c5cde8d56af3857342ba4dbb1ce93919b4761f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2502.00767",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}