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pith:4ZSKB4Q2

pith:2026:4ZSKB4Q2MKMEYZMSPMKW6MRNRF

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Masking Stale Observations Helps Search Agents -- Until It Doesn't: A Regime Map and Its Mechanism

Haoxiang Zhang, Julian McAuley, Lei Zhang, Pengcheng Jiang, Qixin Xu, Yu Zhang, Zhuofeng Li

arxiv:2606.00408 v1 · 2026-05-29 · cs.CL · cs.AI · cs.IR

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First computed	2026-06-02T01:03:53.829658Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e664a0f21a62984c65927b156f322d894d9e50119df86fed21984c4cf7861773

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.00408 · arxiv_version: 2606.00408v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.00408 · pith_short_12: 4ZSKB4Q2MKME · pith_short_16: 4ZSKB4Q2MKMEYZMS · pith_short_8: 4ZSKB4Q2

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4ZSKB4Q2MKMEYZMSPMKW6MRNRF \
  | 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: e664a0f21a62984c65927b156f322d894d9e50119df86fed21984c4cf7861773

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2fa3631667491c14ff3fe76a02a153e7df1c12cdbeabe371f46eeb9a3276f968",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.IR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-29T22:51:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f9e2ec42d5e04584de52cf18de9e9e9b7d4c83293f05391799f65c7316f4e35d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.00408",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}