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pith:2024:FVDTH55FUB5QJNOH6IMSOQXQNY

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A Tale of Trust and Accuracy: Base vs. Instruct LLMs in RAG Systems

Fabrizio Silvestri, Florin Cuconasu, Giovanni Trappolini, Nicola Tonellotto

arxiv:2406.14972 v1 · 2024-06-21 · cs.CL · cs.IR

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First computed	2026-07-05T08:35:11.386868Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

2d4733f7a5a07b04b5c7f2192742f06e3ab99a301de997a167e8f328bf88879c

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arxiv: 2406.14972 · arxiv_version: 2406.14972v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2406.14972 · pith_short_12: FVDTH55FUB5Q · pith_short_16: FVDTH55FUB5QJNOH · pith_short_8: FVDTH55F

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/FVDTH55FUB5QJNOH6IMSOQXQNY \
  | 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: 2d4733f7a5a07b04b5c7f2192742f06e3ab99a301de997a167e8f328bf88879c

Canonical record JSON

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    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2024-06-21T08:31:02Z",
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