Pith Number

pith:UJVASX6Z

pith:2026:UJVASX6Z6LFNLYB7VOBEUDRMNK

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One Run Is Not an Idea: The Implementation Lottery in Automated Research

Chenyan Xiong, Jingjie Ning, Ji Zeng, Shanshan Zhong, Xiaochuan Li

arxiv:2607.26587 v1 · 2026-07-29 · cs.MA · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UJVASX6Z6LFNLYB7VOBEUDRMNK}

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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	2026-07-30T01:21:16.110659Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	unsigned_v0
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a26a095fd9f2cad5e03fab824a0e2c6ab15e8c63d590d2e7f02e5ab8cd8f2dd7

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.26587 · arxiv_version: 2607.26587v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.26587 · pith_short_12: UJVASX6Z6LFN · pith_short_16: UJVASX6Z6LFNLYB7 · pith_short_8: UJVASX6Z

Agent API

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/UJVASX6Z6LFNLYB7VOBEUDRMNK \
  | 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: a26a095fd9f2cad5e03fab824a0e2c6ab15e8c63d590d2e7f02e5ab8cd8f2dd7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "726a67f0021013902153fc7319b4aea8b65d4bc533e41566b8784bfc34b37578",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.MA",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-29T08:06:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "13fd19b5f446d2f969461d3c5e2364c11be566cc8e42928d9992e91175b9dc81"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.26587",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}