Pith Number

pith:WEFBC2CT

pith:2026:WEFBC2CTFUFZ2SMLZT7SRRFOGG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Scientific discovery as meta-optimization: a combinatorial optimization case study

Chesson Sipling, Massimiliano Di Ventra, Yuan-Hang Zhang

arxiv:2606.26728 v1 · 2026-06-25 · cs.AI · cs.LG · cs.MA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WEFBC2CTFUFZ2SMLZT7SRRFOGG}

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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	2026-06-26T01:15:58.143938Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b10a1168532d0b9d498bccff28c4ae31990d942b102b11747c8c7cc6da776e80

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.26728 · arxiv_version: 2606.26728v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.26728 · pith_short_12: WEFBC2CTFUFZ · pith_short_16: WEFBC2CTFUFZ2SML · pith_short_8: WEFBC2CT

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/WEFBC2CTFUFZ2SMLZT7SRRFOGG \
  | 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: b10a1168532d0b9d498bccff28c4ae31990d942b102b11747c8c7cc6da776e80

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "15b87e98e459728cc3897c228145addaf5b6b56a1eac6cfbfe1d6e5154af6c66",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "cs.MA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-25T08:11:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "754357efe088fb8c78615c2ca43aa7d1cf1a4f533248bf7b4cfb2cf7f4e38298"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.26728",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}