Pith Number

pith:J3KVHZTA

pith:2026:J3KVHZTA5KEALR22DA4HNGA5NW

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Trust or Abstain? A Self-Aware RAG Approach

Bangji Yang, Dimitris N. Metaxas, Jiajun Fan, Kai Mei, Minghao Guo, Wujiang Xu, Xi Zhu, Ziqi Wang

arxiv:2605.18792 v1 · 2026-05-11 · cs.IR · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{J3KVHZTA5KEALR22DA4HNGA5NW}

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4 Citations open

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	2026-05-20T00:06:22.605419Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4ed553e660ea8805c75a183876981d6dbfbc52a3a68e42a40bc670191ab9f756

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.18792 · arxiv_version: 2605.18792v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.18792 · pith_short_12: J3KVHZTA5KEA · pith_short_16: J3KVHZTA5KEALR22 · pith_short_8: J3KVHZTA

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/J3KVHZTA5KEALR22DA4HNGA5NW \
  | 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: 4ed553e660ea8805c75a183876981d6dbfbc52a3a68e42a40bc670191ab9f756

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8086c8e78d6f596b002abe9d67e7d8832c8fe6dad41305365122d0b0146c90f9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-11T05:44:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fbfa2a2cfcd838740b2fd0f4d83186d74db6e93823b289f782a4fe0d3a556961"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.18792",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}