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pith:JJJQY4EW

pith:2025:JJJQY4EWVWD545XWQRYDAV7YLI

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A Systematic Literature Review of Retrieval-Augmented Generation: Techniques, Metrics, and Challenges

Andrew Brown, Barry Devereux, Muhammad Roman

arxiv:2508.06401 v3 · 2025-08-08 · cs.DL · cs.AI · cs.CL · cs.IR

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First computed	2026-07-05T12:07:40.435393Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4a530c7096ad87de76f684703057f85a0786d30c3cc64cf4ae5125dd7e13f908

Aliases

arxiv: 2508.06401 · arxiv_version: 2508.06401v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2508.06401 · pith_short_12: JJJQY4EWVWD5 · pith_short_16: JJJQY4EWVWD545XW · pith_short_8: JJJQY4EW

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/JJJQY4EWVWD545XWQRYDAV7YLI \
  | 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: 4a530c7096ad87de76f684703057f85a0786d30c3cc64cf4ae5125dd7e13f908

Canonical record JSON

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      "cs.CL",
      "cs.IR"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2025-08-08T15:37:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fb16c3317c83d7e99a7790f72950aef3e6c9cdb47a12a7c903850a617f923130"
  },
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  }
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