Pith Number

pith:XTMVME7C

pith:2026:XTMVME7CJSAT3TZCTJK5OJMS7Q

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Knowing in Advance When an Evolutionary Outer Loop Will Not Help: A Pre-Registered Cheap-Baseline Screening Rule

Ramchand Kumaresan

arxiv:2606.29119 v1 · 2026-06-28 · cs.CL · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XTMVME7CJSAT3TZCTJK5OJMS7Q}

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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	2026-06-30T01:17:53.484213Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bcd95613e24c813dcf229a55d72592fc3bc461b02aaaf534021c792da59d42f8

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.29119 · arxiv_version: 2606.29119v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.29119 · pith_short_12: XTMVME7CJSAT · pith_short_16: XTMVME7CJSAT3TZC · pith_short_8: XTMVME7C

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/XTMVME7CJSAT3TZCTJK5OJMS7Q \
  | 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: bcd95613e24c813dcf229a55d72592fc3bc461b02aaaf534021c792da59d42f8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0b5046bedfb8d90004c874b0a470665713c3f4119da014d32b6cc778ab62a165",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-28T00:12:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0bf4bbd878c5a0b34c52076a294b4cfbf9f44bdb8116d6ab91681f3db323bcd9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.29119",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}