Pith Number

pith:AL5WNVRO

pith:2026:AL5WNVROVESYC4TZHV3U4E3EPF

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Beyond the Reranker: Do RAG Retrieval Enhancements Help Once a Strong Reranker Is Present?

Allam Reddy, Manan Chopra, Sadanand Singh

arxiv:2606.28367 v1 · 2026-06-14 · cs.IR · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AL5WNVROVESYC4TZHV3U4E3EPF}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-06-30T00:15:12.105443Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

02fb66d62ea9258172793d774e13647954a21519768a803bc50e39715529d0f2

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.28367 · arxiv_version: 2606.28367v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.28367 · pith_short_12: AL5WNVROVESY · pith_short_16: AL5WNVROVESYC4TZ · pith_short_8: AL5WNVRO

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/AL5WNVROVESYC4TZHV3U4E3EPF \
  | 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: 02fb66d62ea9258172793d774e13647954a21519768a803bc50e39715529d0f2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "95a186550a8a8f70a0bba2a699a771a4219a5ee599d01e8e3e56d0e9c6580c31",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-14T20:50:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5de5e79bafdac0335c9d4aa7ac6c25caad46c18bf227238f0f5efb9478f843b6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.28367",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}