Pith Number

pith:HEYLBMPP

pith:2026:HEYLBMPPGSIFAX6W4BY4KVUDMY

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When Thinking Before Retrieval Hurts: TraceBound Diagnostics for Adaptive Knowledge-Graph Retrieval

Partha Sarathi Purkayastha (ETH Z\"urich)

arxiv:2607.24800 v1 · 2026-07-06 · cs.IR · cs.AI · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HEYLBMPPGSIFAX6W4BY4KVUDMY}

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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	2026-07-29T00:24:44.714137Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3930b0b1ef3490505fd6e071c556836631746c293c90aa3e3b4f3fae5ec28bd8

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.24800 · arxiv_version: 2607.24800v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.24800 · pith_short_12: HEYLBMPPGSIF · pith_short_16: HEYLBMPPGSIFAX6W · pith_short_8: HEYLBMPP

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/HEYLBMPPGSIFAX6W4BY4KVUDMY \
  | 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: 3930b0b1ef3490505fd6e071c556836631746c293c90aa3e3b4f3fae5ec28bd8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "381c3a5b5393391a4e0baa138f2815c1738e9bd7ce346117356df8deda3fc027",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-06T09:16:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fb1096c5470cc840df123192abb9acdb656ddc77b9989db2d51b943703fb090d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.24800",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}