Pith Number

pith:UOMXZTDB

pith:2026:UOMXZTDBBZ766SVAGPSZ3TVFQS

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Mutation Without Variation: Convergence Dynamics in LLM-Driven Program Evolution

Can Gurkan, Forrest Stonedahl, Uri Wilensky

arxiv:2606.05408 v1 · 2026-06-03 · cs.AI · cs.NE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UOMXZTDBBZ766SVAGPSZ3TVFQS}

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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	2026-06-05T00:13:56.812973Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a3997ccc610e7fef4aa033e59dcea584ac7bc2a331ebbadcbab90a01aa2208ab

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.05408 · arxiv_version: 2606.05408v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.05408 · pith_short_12: UOMXZTDBBZ76 · pith_short_16: UOMXZTDBBZ766SVA · pith_short_8: UOMXZTDB

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/UOMXZTDBBZ766SVAGPSZ3TVFQS \
  | 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: a3997ccc610e7fef4aa033e59dcea584ac7bc2a331ebbadcbab90a01aa2208ab

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9d1ba153b2529e5df364ed3afddae5cf00b06f3caff1737bfe777b3a7f77c189",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.NE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-03T20:22:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5b1216532037603639f81fad0d8a63d76d327a33f4c181a8d1188d0400ad83ae"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.05408",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}