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pith:WK5HZ5QF

pith:2026:WK5HZ5QFKHAVVOEDEY6FOAIWWJ

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Demystifying Multi-Agent Debate: The Role of Confidence and Diversity

Andreas Vlachos, Caiqi Zhang, Nigel Collier, Tom Stafford, Xiaochen Zhu, Yizhou Chi

arxiv:2601.19921 v2 · 2026-01-09 · cs.CL · cs.AI

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First computed	2026-06-02T03:04:37.273136Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b2ba7cf60551c15ab883263c570116b26cfbb87b7f859c0d89a80f5638b59a73

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arxiv: 2601.19921 · arxiv_version: 2601.19921v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2601.19921 · pith_short_12: WK5HZ5QFKHAV · pith_short_16: WK5HZ5QFKHAVVOED · pith_short_8: WK5HZ5QF

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/WK5HZ5QFKHAVVOEDEY6FOAIWWJ \
  | 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: b2ba7cf60551c15ab883263c570116b26cfbb87b7f859c0d89a80f5638b59a73

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-01-09T02:38:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a6d8131feaedfa39227e9afe089186f7f9cd049b370c3ccded2005db3871f3b8"
  },
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  "source": {
    "id": "2601.19921",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}