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pith:I4PXRFCR

pith:2026:I4PXRFCR7AMIMDSUMXDBJ554FY

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Bridge Evidence: Static Retrieval Utility Does Not Predict Causal Utility in Multi-Step Agentic Search

Debayan Mukhopadhyay, Shubham Chatterjee, Utshab Kumar Ghosh

arxiv:2607.15253 v1 · 2026-07-16 · cs.IR · cs.CL

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First computed	2026-07-17T01:22:16.850346Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

471f789451f818860e5465c614f7bc2e236161457f3343cfbab29edc26bbc2e9

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arxiv: 2607.15253 · arxiv_version: 2607.15253v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.15253 · pith_short_12: I4PXRFCR7AMI · pith_short_16: I4PXRFCR7AMIMDSU · pith_short_8: I4PXRFCR

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/I4PXRFCR7AMIMDSUMXDBJ554FY \
  | 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: 471f789451f818860e5465c614f7bc2e236161457f3343cfbab29edc26bbc2e9

Canonical record JSON

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      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-16T17:48:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a82ffca1bb4e4a1299ae2cdcd4f4eaac92cd72e8d3aa82512a373cd3a6f09a6c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.15253",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}