Pith Number

pith:ZNV5C4VY

pith:2026:ZNV5C4VYLF2R6TX73GI7W6VONA

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Notation Matters: A Benchmark Study of Token-Optimized Formats in Agentic AI Systems

Bernhard Geiger, Lorenz Kutschka

arxiv:2605.29676 v1 · 2026-05-28 · cs.AI · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZNV5C4VYLF2R6TX73GI7W6VONA}

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4 Citations open

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✓ 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	2026-05-29T01:05:55.018091Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cb6bd172b859751f4effd991fb7aae68352b5201c598f9336a90d3a883b8eed0

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.29676 · arxiv_version: 2605.29676v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.29676 · pith_short_12: ZNV5C4VYLF2R · pith_short_16: ZNV5C4VYLF2R6TX7 · pith_short_8: ZNV5C4VY

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ZNV5C4VYLF2R6TX73GI7W6VONA \
  | 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: cb6bd172b859751f4effd991fb7aae68352b5201c598f9336a90d3a883b8eed0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "affc51357f87c960fbca5be44f1213b13caf4b5abc3c7d396d3400e45fab17b0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-28T09:38:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4d466704bb2252668507e03590b2cda74e8e30237fbcb0ee191c1271a7477e06"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.29676",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}