Pith Number

pith:5XH4K5R6

pith:2026:5XH4K5R6ZDBYMAGAREWH4IGOUU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Step-by-Step Optimization-like Reasoning in LLMs over Expanding Search Spaces

Mihaela van der Schaar, Nabeel Seedat, Nicol\'as Astorga

arxiv:2606.05464 v1 · 2026-06-03 · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5XH4K5R6ZDBYMAGAREWH4IGOUU}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-06-05T01:14:51.939086Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

edcfc5763ec8c38600c0892c7e20cea516cb0244e09b63c6b5ea319701c2bc06

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.05464 · arxiv_version: 2606.05464v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.05464 · pith_short_12: 5XH4K5R6ZDBY · pith_short_16: 5XH4K5R6ZDBYMAGA · pith_short_8: 5XH4K5R6

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/5XH4K5R6ZDBYMAGAREWH4IGOUU \
  | 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: edcfc5763ec8c38600c0892c7e20cea516cb0244e09b63c6b5ea319701c2bc06

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b8a395204a550a58a854b84219426030bf9bcdcaf4ef7dd52aa9817cacbbdcd8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-03T21:43:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2e5546527f6fedbf680a4d7f35b6c472ae1e70d55bf26ec7da3ac2fe5880fe7c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.05464",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}