Pith Number

pith:XJ4J2J2A

pith:2025:XJ4J2J2AFXVB5K53CUMFSJQ37H

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Less Noise, More Signal: DRR for Better Optimizations of SE Tasks

Andre Lustosa, Tim Menzies

arxiv:2503.21086 v1 · 2025-03-27 · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XJ4J2J2AFXVB5K53CUMFSJQ37H}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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.

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T10:39:52.875792Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ba789d27402dea1eabbb151859261bf9f4d7ed33526c9f61c65d1fa4144b4670

Aliases

arxiv: 2503.21086 · arxiv_version: 2503.21086v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2503.21086 · pith_short_12: XJ4J2J2AFXVB · pith_short_16: XJ4J2J2AFXVB5K53 · pith_short_8: XJ4J2J2A

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/XJ4J2J2AFXVB5K53CUMFSJQ37H \
  | 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: ba789d27402dea1eabbb151859261bf9f4d7ed33526c9f61c65d1fa4144b4670

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fd43c4cc7fe8f02f21a15dcdee1a6445bf12dba6e3d976bddc2d65e6ff892958",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2025-03-27T02:02:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4b0e0637f5071c5671992a1f449e830214ae838aac6d48e142606b90735a0363"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2503.21086",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}