Pith Number

pith:GGPHTM2E

pith:2026:GGPHTM2E6MM4T32PJQL5RZG2IT

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Know Before You Fetch: Calibrated Retrieval-Budget Allocation for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

(2) Stanford University, (3) Independent Researcher), Fang Qin (2), Manish Shah (3), Yicheng Wang (3) ((1) University of Maine at Presque Isle, Zhe Dong (1)

arxiv:2606.29959 v1 · 2026-06-29 · cs.IR · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GGPHTM2E6MM4T32PJQL5RZG2IT}

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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	2026-06-30T02:17:42.781156Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

319e79b344f319c9ef4f4c17d8e4da44f0effb29b86c6638aa38b99b350af09a

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.29959 · arxiv_version: 2606.29959v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.29959 · pith_short_12: GGPHTM2E6MM4 · pith_short_16: GGPHTM2E6MM4T32P · pith_short_8: GGPHTM2E

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/GGPHTM2E6MM4T32PJQL5RZG2IT \
  | 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: 319e79b344f319c9ef4f4c17d8e4da44f0effb29b86c6638aa38b99b350af09a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "16753606cf886405e0093157340e5449f0b9daf8805324b5b25563b9353f004f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-29T08:36:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1c3f4f631e06b1dd4f7d0bb27891400cd0175241e291e297051d0fde9508823b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.29959",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}