Pith Number

pith:F62J3JED

pith:2026:F62J3JEDUW34UUZWXSF7VUDRLK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

EXCISE: Query-Side Exclusion for Late-Interaction Retrieval

Abdelrahman Abdallah, Adam Jatowt, Mohammed Ali

arxiv:2608.05497 v1 · 2026-08-06 · cs.IR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{F62J3JEDUW34UUZWXSF7VUDRLK}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-08-07T00:47:58.695895Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2fb49da483a5b7ca5336bc8bfad0715a8e956d660a59e1f56558748cf355bc3f

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.05497 · arxiv_version: 2608.05497v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.05497 · pith_short_12: F62J3JEDUW34 · pith_short_16: F62J3JEDUW34UUZW · pith_short_8: F62J3JED

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/F62J3JEDUW34UUZWXSF7VUDRLK \
  | 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: 2fb49da483a5b7ca5336bc8bfad0715a8e956d660a59e1f56558748cf355bc3f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4395051698702e6a04fd9f8184ac1af3fc73a98a2773437102dfa927d975eabe",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-06T00:56:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "590ccec736b7c7ffbee753afd018d6d049c356db0bb24ab001da47c8d6a88891"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.05497",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}