Pith Number

pith:SP4O3DVW

pith:2026:SP4O3DVWODG7ANH3XARQATI7SC

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Toward Reliable Context Compression for Long-Horizon Agents: An Empirical Study of Execution Instability

Chen Chen, Guanghui Min, Liangjie Hong, Liang Wu, Mayank Darbari

arxiv:2608.06503 v1 · 2026-08-06 · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SP4O3DVWODG7ANH3XARQATI7SC}

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4 Citations open

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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	2026-08-10T01:10:52.595779Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

93f8ed8eb670cdf034fbb823004d1f909ece4936c5b1bb76168990375d52079d

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.06503 · arxiv_version: 2608.06503v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.06503 · pith_short_12: SP4O3DVWODG7 · pith_short_16: SP4O3DVWODG7ANH3 · pith_short_8: SP4O3DVW

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/SP4O3DVWODG7ANH3XARQATI7SC \
  | 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: 93f8ed8eb670cdf034fbb823004d1f909ece4936c5b1bb76168990375d52079d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "94a853faf855a8e0878dd2ae4bf4465ee463d3d3178671222f46b1723f59a827",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-06T18:42:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a0b07361932075e62b4350b6ae1bb162930300556fdd44dba84b0e9dfb25476b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.06503",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}