{"bundle_type":"pith_open_graph_bundle","bundle_version":"1.0","pith_number":"pith:2026:TYRU34N7XLXZF5LMN6HTI7OKLV","short_pith_number":"pith:TYRU34N7","canonical_record":{"source":{"id":"2608.09855","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"metadata":{"license":"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","primary_cat":"cs.AI","submitted_at":"2026-08-10T17:13:02Z","cross_cats_sorted":["cs.CL"],"title_canon_sha256":"f8c00f904c0abdc94f5e0c82907ec3a7c73988740f661e6a7162e70822736998","abstract_canon_sha256":"1c3a4048e552925c845fd30db2993e28816239e9bdb98a7b2daab3bc9ffac8e7"},"schema_version":"1.0"},"canonical_sha256":"9e234df1bfbaef92f56c6f8f347dca5d4704a3e08578f64013251c651076890e","source":{"kind":"arxiv","id":"2608.09855","version":1},"source_aliases":[{"alias_kind":"arxiv","alias_value":"2608.09855","created_at":"2026-08-11T02:25:16Z"},{"alias_kind":"arxiv_version","alias_value":"2608.09855v1","created_at":"2026-08-11T02:25:16Z"},{"alias_kind":"doi","alias_value":"10.48550/arxiv.2608.09855","created_at":"2026-08-11T02:25:16Z"},{"alias_kind":"pith_short_12","alias_value":"TYRU34N7XLXZ","created_at":"2026-08-11T02:25:16Z"},{"alias_kind":"pith_short_16","alias_value":"TYRU34N7XLXZF5LM","created_at":"2026-08-11T02:25:16Z"},{"alias_kind":"pith_short_8","alias_value":"TYRU34N7","created_at":"2026-08-11T02:25:16Z"}],"events":[{"event_type":"record_created","subject_pith_number":"pith:2026:TYRU34N7XLXZF5LMN6HTI7OKLV","target":"record","payload":{"canonical_record":{"source":{"id":"2608.09855","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"metadata":{"license":"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","primary_cat":"cs.AI","submitted_at":"2026-08-10T17:13:02Z","cross_cats_sorted":["cs.CL"],"title_canon_sha256":"f8c00f904c0abdc94f5e0c82907ec3a7c73988740f661e6a7162e70822736998","abstract_canon_sha256":"1c3a4048e552925c845fd30db2993e28816239e9bdb98a7b2daab3bc9ffac8e7"},"schema_version":"1.0"},"canonical_sha256":"9e234df1bfbaef92f56c6f8f347dca5d4704a3e08578f64013251c651076890e","receipt":{"kind":"pith_receipt","key_id":"pith-v1-2026-05","algorithm":"ed25519","signed_at":"2026-08-11T02:25:16.070144Z","signature_b64":"D55DhoxQsBV2lAVJMuyIVh0snygDWrbqhWEO4Cm3B6BRlm1Ru+cNi33eCmOTK9MdsFdz9E5GuSW32R2IPIvYCg==","signed_message":"canonical_sha256_bytes","builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1","receipt_version":"0.3","canonical_sha256":"9e234df1bfbaef92f56c6f8f347dca5d4704a3e08578f64013251c651076890e","last_reissued_at":"2026-08-11T02:25:16.068418Z","signature_status":"signed_v1","first_computed_at":"2026-08-11T02:25:16.068418Z","public_key_fingerprint":"8d4b5ee74e4693bcd1df2446408b0d54"},"source_kind":"arxiv","source_id":"2608.09855","source_version":1,"attestation_state":"computed"},"signer":{"signer_id":"pith.science","signer_type":"pith_registry","key_id":"pith-v1-2026-05","public_key_fingerprint":"8d4b5ee74e4693bcd1df2446408b0d54"},"created_at":"2026-08-11T02:25:16Z","supersedes":[],"prev_event":null,"signature":{"signature_status":"signed_v1","algorithm":"ed25519","key_id":"pith-v1-2026-05","public_key_fingerprint":"8d4b5ee74e4693bcd1df2446408b0d54","signature_b64":"zeNVfcTwOZeWWBw3FCF8DLnp8bYHlxgw1hN8WMlW2wDe2UK7mJQn1Uk6Hgu6L6jJaL6X10p01G/emr2yDhAqDA==","signed_message":"open_graph_event_sha256_bytes","signed_at":"2026-08-19T18:52:30.568637Z"},"content_sha256":"9e0667fedd49d85d62fe515ce1a4d84b100c5329bdfcf8d40f4bf483ae79bafc","schema_version":"1.0","event_id":"sha256:9e0667fedd49d85d62fe515ce1a4d84b100c5329bdfcf8d40f4bf483ae79bafc"},{"event_type":"graph_snapshot","subject_pith_number":"pith:2026:TYRU34N7XLXZF5LMN6HTI7OKLV","target":"graph","payload":{"graph_snapshot":{"paper":{"title":"Agentic Auto-Research is Fuzz Testing","license":"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["cs.CL"],"primary_cat":"cs.AI","authors_text":"Hao Chen, Jiachen Liu, Jicheng Wang, Yifeng He, Yinzhe Zhao","submitted_at":"2026-08-10T17:13:02Z","abstract_excerpt":"Autonomous research agents can generate experiments faster than researchers can validate them. Researchers have responded by scaling the proposer and ranking more samples with a learned judge or human reviewers. We argue that this *generate-and-rank* paradigm misses the problem of sparse feedback. Within a declared research problem, an agent follows the control loop of a greybox fuzzer: it proposes a candidate, executes it, observes feedback, and chooses what to try next. A fuzzer rarely finds a bug, but coverage makes partial progress observable on every execution. Fuzzers then use that signa"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"2608.09855","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"integrity":{"clean":true,"summary":{"advisory":0,"critical":0,"by_detector":{},"informational":0},"endpoint":"/pith/2608.09855/integrity.json","findings":[],"available":true,"detectors_run":[],"snapshot_sha256":"c28c3603d3b5d939e8dc4c7e95fa8dfce3d595e45f758748cecf8e644a296938"},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"},"verdict_id":null},"signer":{"signer_id":"pith.science","signer_type":"pith_registry","key_id":"pith-v1-2026-05","public_key_fingerprint":"8d4b5ee74e4693bcd1df2446408b0d54"},"created_at":"2026-08-11T02:25:16Z","supersedes":[],"prev_event":null,"signature":{"signature_status":"signed_v1","algorithm":"ed25519","key_id":"pith-v1-2026-05","public_key_fingerprint":"8d4b5ee74e4693bcd1df2446408b0d54","signature_b64":"f1sHne+Og/S+hlwLaGIIQ7xMvsmryRx0ZWxCt/rl5tI/V0TXSZC14qvSwnvE6eMjGJ/6oLn1AzskneY0Pts0BA==","signed_message":"open_graph_event_sha256_bytes","signed_at":"2026-08-19T18:52:30.569157Z"},"content_sha256":"a189192c10d2537c1a00fe8152129d8e756172d94031b31ba6e1c13d8630b97c","schema_version":"1.0","event_id":"sha256:a189192c10d2537c1a00fe8152129d8e756172d94031b31ba6e1c13d8630b97c"}],"timestamp_proofs":[],"mirror_hints":[{"mirror_type":"https","name":"Pith Resolver","base_url":"https://pith.science","bundle_url":"https://pith.science/pith/TYRU34N7XLXZF5LMN6HTI7OKLV/bundle.json","state_url":"https://pith.science/pith/TYRU34N7XLXZF5LMN6HTI7OKLV/state.json","well_known_bundle_url":"https://pith.science/.well-known/pith/TYRU34N7XLXZF5LMN6HTI7OKLV/bundle.json","status":"primary"}],"public_keys":[{"key_id":"pith-v1-2026-05","algorithm":"ed25519","format":"raw","public_key_b64":"stVStoiQhXFxp4s2pdzPNoqVNBMojDU/fJ2db5S3CbM=","public_key_hex":"b2d552b68890857171a78b36a5dccf368a953413288c353f7c9d9d6f94b709b3","fingerprint_sha256_b32_first128bits":"RVFV5Z2OI2J3ZUO7ERDEBCYNKS","fingerprint_sha256_hex":"8d4b5ee74e4693bcd1df2446408b0d54","rotates_at":null,"url":"https://pith.science/pith-signing-key.json","notes":"Pith uses this Ed25519 key to sign canonical record SHA-256 digests. Verify with: ed25519_verify(public_key, message=canonical_sha256_bytes, signature=base64decode(signature_b64))."}],"merge_version":"pith-open-graph-merge-v1","built_at":"2026-08-19T18:52:30Z","links":{"resolver":"https://pith.science/pith/TYRU34N7XLXZF5LMN6HTI7OKLV","bundle":"https://pith.science/pith/TYRU34N7XLXZF5LMN6HTI7OKLV/bundle.json","state":"https://pith.science/pith/TYRU34N7XLXZF5LMN6HTI7OKLV/state.json","well_known_bundle":"https://pith.science/.well-known/pith/TYRU34N7XLXZF5LMN6HTI7OKLV/bundle.json"},"state":{"state_type":"pith_open_graph_state","state_version":"1.0","pith_number":"pith:2026:TYRU34N7XLXZF5LMN6HTI7OKLV","merge_version":"pith-open-graph-merge-v1","event_count":2,"valid_event_count":2,"invalid_event_count":0,"equivocation_count":0,"current":{"canonical_record":{"metadata":{"abstract_canon_sha256":"1c3a4048e552925c845fd30db2993e28816239e9bdb98a7b2daab3bc9ffac8e7","cross_cats_sorted":["cs.CL"],"license":"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","primary_cat":"cs.AI","submitted_at":"2026-08-10T17:13:02Z","title_canon_sha256":"f8c00f904c0abdc94f5e0c82907ec3a7c73988740f661e6a7162e70822736998"},"schema_version":"1.0","source":{"id":"2608.09855","kind":"arxiv","version":1}},"source_aliases":[{"alias_kind":"arxiv","alias_value":"2608.09855","created_at":"2026-08-11T02:25:16Z"},{"alias_kind":"arxiv_version","alias_value":"2608.09855v1","created_at":"2026-08-11T02:25:16Z"},{"alias_kind":"doi","alias_value":"10.48550/arxiv.2608.09855","created_at":"2026-08-11T02:25:16Z"},{"alias_kind":"pith_short_12","alias_value":"TYRU34N7XLXZ","created_at":"2026-08-11T02:25:16Z"},{"alias_kind":"pith_short_16","alias_value":"TYRU34N7XLXZF5LM","created_at":"2026-08-11T02:25:16Z"},{"alias_kind":"pith_short_8","alias_value":"TYRU34N7","created_at":"2026-08-11T02:25:16Z"}],"graph_snapshots":[{"event_id":"sha256:a189192c10d2537c1a00fe8152129d8e756172d94031b31ba6e1c13d8630b97c","target":"graph","created_at":"2026-08-11T02:25:16Z","signer":{"key_id":"pith-v1-2026-05","public_key_fingerprint":"8d4b5ee74e4693bcd1df2446408b0d54","signer_id":"pith.science","signer_type":"pith_registry"},"payload":{"graph_snapshot":{"author_claims":{"count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","strong_count":0},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1","claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"integrity":{"available":true,"clean":true,"detectors_run":[],"endpoint":"/pith/2608.09855/integrity.json","findings":[],"snapshot_sha256":"c28c3603d3b5d939e8dc4c7e95fa8dfce3d595e45f758748cecf8e644a296938","summary":{"advisory":0,"by_detector":{},"critical":0,"informational":0}},"paper":{"abstract_excerpt":"Autonomous research agents can generate experiments faster than researchers can validate them. Researchers have responded by scaling the proposer and ranking more samples with a learned judge or human reviewers. We argue that this *generate-and-rank* paradigm misses the problem of sparse feedback. Within a declared research problem, an agent follows the control loop of a greybox fuzzer: it proposes a candidate, executes it, observes feedback, and chooses what to try next. A fuzzer rarely finds a bug, but coverage makes partial progress observable on every execution. Fuzzers then use that signa","authors_text":"Hao Chen, Jiachen Liu, Jicheng Wang, Yifeng He, Yinzhe Zhao","cross_cats":["cs.CL"],"headline":"","license":"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","primary_cat":"cs.AI","submitted_at":"2026-08-10T17:13:02Z","title":"Agentic Auto-Research is Fuzz Testing"},"references":{"count":0,"internal_anchors":0,"resolved_work":0,"sample":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"2608.09855","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"created_at":null,"id":null,"model_set":{},"one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"pith_extraction_headline":"","strongest_claim":"","weakest_assumption":""}},"verdict_id":null}}],"author_attestations":[],"timestamp_anchors":[],"storage_attestations":[],"citation_signatures":[],"replication_records":[],"corrections":[],"mirror_hints":[],"record_created":{"event_id":"sha256:9e0667fedd49d85d62fe515ce1a4d84b100c5329bdfcf8d40f4bf483ae79bafc","target":"record","created_at":"2026-08-11T02:25:16Z","signer":{"key_id":"pith-v1-2026-05","public_key_fingerprint":"8d4b5ee74e4693bcd1df2446408b0d54","signer_id":"pith.science","signer_type":"pith_registry"},"payload":{"attestation_state":"computed","canonical_record":{"metadata":{"abstract_canon_sha256":"1c3a4048e552925c845fd30db2993e28816239e9bdb98a7b2daab3bc9ffac8e7","cross_cats_sorted":["cs.CL"],"license":"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","primary_cat":"cs.AI","submitted_at":"2026-08-10T17:13:02Z","title_canon_sha256":"f8c00f904c0abdc94f5e0c82907ec3a7c73988740f661e6a7162e70822736998"},"schema_version":"1.0","source":{"id":"2608.09855","kind":"arxiv","version":1}},"canonical_sha256":"9e234df1bfbaef92f56c6f8f347dca5d4704a3e08578f64013251c651076890e","receipt":{"algorithm":"ed25519","builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1","canonical_sha256":"9e234df1bfbaef92f56c6f8f347dca5d4704a3e08578f64013251c651076890e","first_computed_at":"2026-08-11T02:25:16.068418Z","key_id":"pith-v1-2026-05","kind":"pith_receipt","last_reissued_at":"2026-08-11T02:25:16.068418Z","public_key_fingerprint":"8d4b5ee74e4693bcd1df2446408b0d54","receipt_version":"0.3","signature_b64":"D55DhoxQsBV2lAVJMuyIVh0snygDWrbqhWEO4Cm3B6BRlm1Ru+cNi33eCmOTK9MdsFdz9E5GuSW32R2IPIvYCg==","signature_status":"signed_v1","signed_at":"2026-08-11T02:25:16.070144Z","signed_message":"canonical_sha256_bytes"},"source_id":"2608.09855","source_kind":"arxiv","source_version":1}}},"equivocations":[],"invalid_events":[],"applied_event_ids":["sha256:9e0667fedd49d85d62fe515ce1a4d84b100c5329bdfcf8d40f4bf483ae79bafc","sha256:a189192c10d2537c1a00fe8152129d8e756172d94031b31ba6e1c13d8630b97c"],"state_sha256":"e49ce652f6d56975edc9885c090f5255eadc2f8cee0b605cf92c33fbfb0a3e69"},"bundle_signature":{"signature_status":"signed_v1","algorithm":"ed25519","key_id":"pith-v1-2026-05","public_key_fingerprint":"8d4b5ee74e4693bcd1df2446408b0d54","signature_b64":"8BB3STlZZ7IpSROBp0mMabIVSvBcpySrOgs0tUG/W91qBkn0YHOtnkburiQCIEBrXZ5AbmL85YMlWkvM3I/hBw==","signed_message":"bundle_sha256_bytes","signed_at":"2026-08-19T18:52:30.573401Z","bundle_sha256":"6cc40c3a53729cb659d94c454ed5f4f2590aecb209f748e5e0454018e9f10920"}}