Pith Number

pith:77PPNT5Y

pith:2025:77PPNT5YOWT3WUHHUXBW2RQPRP

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Scaling Sparse and Dense Retrieval in Decoder-Only LLMs

Hamed Zamani, Hansi Zeng, Julian Killingback

arxiv:2502.15526 v1 · 2025-02-21 · cs.IR

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Beyond Hard Negatives: The Importance of Score Distribution in Knowledge Distillation for Dense Retrieval

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First computed	2026-07-05T10:18:03.009803Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ffdef6cfb875a7bb50e7a5c36d460f8bfbd66da8f7761740a40ddb72fe444727

Aliases

arxiv: 2502.15526 · arxiv_version: 2502.15526v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2502.15526 · pith_short_12: 77PPNT5YOWT3 · pith_short_16: 77PPNT5YOWT3WUHH · pith_short_8: 77PPNT5Y

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/77PPNT5YOWT3WUHHUXBW2RQPRP \
  | 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: ffdef6cfb875a7bb50e7a5c36d460f8bfbd66da8f7761740a40ddb72fe444727

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "48e490bb56372eccd7c6914be55808578a45689cef6453b729aa55ee511ea92a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IR",
    "submitted_at": "2025-02-21T15:28:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "68e0b0da9f72522b0c2f224bc95c91ae335fbc831a7c75be3f789eb8285e9c99"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2502.15526",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}