Pith Number

pith:YWVNOHHJ

pith:2026:YWVNOHHJEORLCRCRW65Y5PWAR5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Teach the Magnitude, Not the Direction: Verifier-Bounded Credit Assignment for Multi-Turn Multi-step LLM Agents

Chenyi Zhuang, Hongxuan Zhang, Leilei Gan, Linjian Mo, Siyuan Lu, Zechuan Wang

arxiv:2608.13179 v1 · 2026-08-13 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YWVNOHHJEORLCRCRW65Y5PWAR5}

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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	2026-08-14T01:00:36.216592Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c5aad71ce923a2b14451b7bb8ebec08f590b3fd50cdf8a34f320bf9fac1bfd0f

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.13179 · arxiv_version: 2608.13179v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.13179 · pith_short_12: YWVNOHHJEORL · pith_short_16: YWVNOHHJEORLCRCR · pith_short_8: YWVNOHHJ

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/YWVNOHHJEORLCRCRW65Y5PWAR5 \
  | 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: c5aad71ce923a2b14451b7bb8ebec08f590b3fd50cdf8a34f320bf9fac1bfd0f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "75bffcd5bd84adcc0f867c2c57042eb93ea35c9231fd84ff05785b3d0503a23e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-13T12:44:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c2a2412448313bf2df6907c8e95f5b2cc792a6b5c9531b713696e3d112cb3b00"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.13179",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}