Pith Number

pith:WRWN4YYE

pith:2026:WRWN4YYEHAODRUEJR5N5JWRZFC

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Idea Search: Guiding Tree Search with Ideas to Explore Diverse Scientific Methods

Hao Cui, Michael P. Brenner, Subhashini Venugopalan, Xuefei Julie Wang

arxiv:2608.08958 v1 · 2026-08-09 · cs.LG · cs.AI · q-bio.GN · q-bio.QM

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WRWN4YYEHAODRUEJR5N5JWRZFC}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-08-11T01:25:50.334902Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b46cde6304381c38d0898f5bd4da3928ae7c12b159ccd23961bd67be630dce2c

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.08958 · arxiv_version: 2608.08958v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.08958 · pith_short_12: WRWN4YYEHAOD · pith_short_16: WRWN4YYEHAODRUEJ · pith_short_8: WRWN4YYE

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/WRWN4YYEHAODRUEJR5N5JWRZFC \
  | 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: b46cde6304381c38d0898f5bd4da3928ae7c12b159ccd23961bd67be630dce2c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e5b032544338a7944a1b0e35d2c81c89c2b0edeb13db9d357a7646a493120e1d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "q-bio.GN",
      "q-bio.QM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-09T23:31:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "300a6b8272d3cb020de045db8e436a8f0483a0cd418f01b74a651b3a2820c0ba"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.08958",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}