Pith Number

pith:M4HSGHVC

pith:2026:M4HSGHVC3UUGTOUP5D3W7XHMGR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Fetch-then-Explore: Decoupling Selection from Extraction over a Persistent Workspace for Search Agents

Fengbin Zhu, Jiaxin Mao, Qi Liu, Tat-Seng Chua, Yan Gao, Yao Hu, Yiqun Chen, Yi Wu, Zidan Chen

arxiv:2608.02097 v1 · 2026-08-03 · cs.AI · cs.IR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{M4HSGHVC3UUGTOUP5D3W7XHMGR}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-08-04T02:10:50.475466Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

670f231ea2dd2869ba8fe8f76fdcec346ca66b817be12a66301311b41ae5478e

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.02097 · arxiv_version: 2608.02097v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.02097 · pith_short_12: M4HSGHVC3UUG · pith_short_16: M4HSGHVC3UUGTOUP · pith_short_8: M4HSGHVC

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/M4HSGHVC3UUGTOUP5D3W7XHMGR \
  | 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: 670f231ea2dd2869ba8fe8f76fdcec346ca66b817be12a66301311b41ae5478e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "52f8bd06130edacb0328a3f192046ae9c468ac4c23afefc65866419bb85398a4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IR"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-03T11:58:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9409a1317dbe5a33c1e831755fd883890d696598768046a46a515def4a7247d1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.02097",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}