Pith Number

pith:EEPCCBCO

pith:2026:EEPCCBCOQKQT5M6QD3OQLK37PH

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When Retrieval Doesn't Help: A Large-Scale Study of Biomedical RAG

Anthony Rios, Erfan Nourbakhsh, Ke Yang, Rocky Slavin

arxiv:2606.04127 v1 · 2026-06-02 · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EEPCCBCOQKQT5M6QD3OQLK37PH}

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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	2026-06-04T00:06:51.339913Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

211e21044e82a13eb3d01edd05ab7f79fa085212197ddebeb36458c7e1e9302a

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.04127 · arxiv_version: 2606.04127v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.04127 · pith_short_12: EEPCCBCOQKQT · pith_short_16: EEPCCBCOQKQT5M6Q · pith_short_8: EEPCCBCO

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/EEPCCBCOQKQT5M6QD3OQLK37PH \
  | 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: 211e21044e82a13eb3d01edd05ab7f79fa085212197ddebeb36458c7e1e9302a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "179d166d2528a9313f9c91c4e5f57ce775059ecced1c32ae35fef28bfdad1ce5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-02T18:34:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d60a0f3ab754e8cb90c9c59c37897de82bcaa920e28bf417267da04d6fac3bd1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.04127",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}