Pith Number

pith:I4HFEHFE

pith:2026:I4HFEHFEMQ6VFANGDIOHFI6K7L

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What Survives Into Context: A Diagnostic for Budget-Constrained Multi-Hop RAG and When Submodular Evidence Packing Improves It

Ananto Nayan Bala

arxiv:2607.00725 v1 · 2026-07-01 · cs.CL · cs.IR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{I4HFEHFEMQ6VFANGDIOHFI6K7L}

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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	2026-07-02T01:17:52.718147Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

470e521ca4643d5281a61a1c72a3cafac1cd274d04f9969efa581531d737f171

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.00725 · arxiv_version: 2607.00725v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.00725 · pith_short_12: I4HFEHFEMQ6V · pith_short_16: I4HFEHFEMQ6VFANG · pith_short_8: I4HFEHFE

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/I4HFEHFEMQ6VFANGDIOHFI6K7L \
  | 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: 470e521ca4643d5281a61a1c72a3cafac1cd274d04f9969efa581531d737f171

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0ec6d9afbdc10dfce919059739b8495fdec989ad5c2b3142912a7363e516425e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IR"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-01T10:12:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "956af3a25cd0bf7a6cde0d9417a4e431c131161557f52016f622910ed1dde4b5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.00725",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}