Pith Number

pith:6Q4SR2HI

pith:2025:6Q4SR2HIQCJAFCYHC6PBHVDFLQ

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Can Generative LLMs Create Query Variants for Test Collections? An Exploratory Study

Falk Scholer, Luke Gallagher, Mark Sanderson, Marwah Alaofi, Paul Thomas

arxiv:2501.17981 v1 · 2025-01-29 · cs.IR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6Q4SR2HIQCJAFCYHC6PBHVDFLQ}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T10:07:05.214795Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f43928e8e88092028b07179e13d4655c1c791a9b57dc344132a16a75fe589980

Aliases

arxiv: 2501.17981 · arxiv_version: 2501.17981v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2501.17981 · pith_short_12: 6Q4SR2HIQCJA · pith_short_16: 6Q4SR2HIQCJAFCYH · pith_short_8: 6Q4SR2HI

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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/6Q4SR2HIQCJAFCYHC6PBHVDFLQ \
  | 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: f43928e8e88092028b07179e13d4655c1c791a9b57dc344132a16a75fe589980

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "354785145a35a3de0f225ab08dd4508c0db431a0998df71ccc0525c08954bcd0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IR",
    "submitted_at": "2025-01-29T20:36:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b84b2d1f62bc5bb3c2b0822b2818367e4780b0708d23ffb6a8609234eac67c95"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2501.17981",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}