Pith Number

pith:2VVKMGFU

pith:2026:2VVKMGFUASX237MLNX2MYAY34T

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Xetrieval: Mechanistically Explaining Dense Retrieval

Jiaqi Li, Jun Bai, Taichuan Li, Wenge Rong, Yang Liu, Yichi Zhang, Zhixin Cai, Zhuofan Chen, Zilong Zheng, Zixia Jia

arxiv:2605.29507 v1 · 2026-05-28 · cs.AI · cs.IR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2VVKMGFUASX237MLNX2MYAY34T}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-29T01:05:43.598597Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d56aa618b404afadfd8b6df4cc031be4df2e51a08fb8b7a92b0b5e1eb5e5ccd2

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.29507 · arxiv_version: 2605.29507v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.29507 · pith_short_12: 2VVKMGFUASX2 · pith_short_16: 2VVKMGFUASX237ML · pith_short_8: 2VVKMGFU

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/2VVKMGFUASX237MLNX2MYAY34T \
  | 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: d56aa618b404afadfd8b6df4cc031be4df2e51a08fb8b7a92b0b5e1eb5e5ccd2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f6470ef19cb8dfa1e34a282fc597c509fb59b74e3f6d6bbebb5af2690139e9ba",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-28T07:29:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6c59ad0efc932927dfee486a8a0694ab7946a1d108434d6296b6065958e66fd3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.29507",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}