Pith Number

pith:2FOQQFGH

pith:2019:2FOQQFGH27NNCFNO5RPHZVG7L7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Investigating the Successes and Failures of BERT for Passage Re-Ranking

Hamed Zamani, Harshith Padigela, W. Bruce Croft

arxiv:1905.01758 v1 · 2019-05-05 · cs.IR · cs.CL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2FOQQFGH27NNCFNO5RPHZVG7L7}

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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	2026-05-17T23:46:57.525095Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d15d0814c7d7dad115aeec5e7cd4df5fcfd7f1b84e9dad40792ad6d8aec5c225

Aliases

arxiv: 1905.01758 · arxiv_version: 1905.01758v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1905.01758 · pith_short_12: 2FOQQFGH27NN · pith_short_16: 2FOQQFGH27NNCFNO · pith_short_8: 2FOQQFGH

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/2FOQQFGH27NNCFNO5RPHZVG7L7 \
  | 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: d15d0814c7d7dad115aeec5e7cd4df5fcfd7f1b84e9dad40792ad6d8aec5c225

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4bc08f4fbd83ecede1f856260602d951b2e85546913376ac890fb9265d35ecec",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IR",
    "submitted_at": "2019-05-05T22:16:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6dff612f622fc9eafb878ea43a3262fa341e4ec3ad2f280c9ba74310992b240c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1905.01758",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}