Pith Number

pith:3AM5LGCA

pith:2025:3AM5LGCA5TUJ7TAGPQKL5P6XUR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Disentangling Locality and Entropy in Ranking Distillation

Andrew Parry, Debasis Ganguly, Sean MacAvaney

arxiv:2505.21058 v1 · 2025-05-27 · cs.IR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3AM5LGCA5TUJ7TAGPQKL5P6XUR}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-07-05T11:10:23.006477Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d819d59840ece89fcc067c14bebfd7a45b6e56248fc3ac6e6e300e30feedbb79

Aliases

arxiv: 2505.21058 · arxiv_version: 2505.21058v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.21058 · pith_short_12: 3AM5LGCA5TUJ · pith_short_16: 3AM5LGCA5TUJ7TAG · pith_short_8: 3AM5LGCA

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/3AM5LGCA5TUJ7TAGPQKL5P6XUR \
  | 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: d819d59840ece89fcc067c14bebfd7a45b6e56248fc3ac6e6e300e30feedbb79

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f44dcad786e7197e83a5787f1b180fac6b290619aa8468b004f40e9278eb7213",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IR",
    "submitted_at": "2025-05-27T11:46:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b9f71a9e01ad0166d59e6b3a260ad723f75c0f3ca7664d7f178fd9634ad8485e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2505.21058",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}