Pith Number

pith:JMSHY6UC

pith:2026:JMSHY6UCCXYQN4OMRDIPF5F47A

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Beyond Top-K: Replacing Black-Box Retrieval with Interpretable Agentic Operations

Ayush Vyas, Sagar Tamang, Tabarakul Hazarika

arxiv:2608.06305 v1 · 2026-08-06 · cs.AI · cs.CL · cs.IR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JMSHY6UCCXYQN4OMRDIPF5F47A}

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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.

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First computed	2026-08-07T01:41:19.968481Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4b247c7a8215f106f1cc88d0f2f4bcf83ffffbef00c724ec94f1c9bee5f52a73

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.06305 · arxiv_version: 2608.06305v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.06305 · pith_short_12: JMSHY6UCCXYQ · pith_short_16: JMSHY6UCCXYQN4OM · pith_short_8: JMSHY6UC

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/JMSHY6UCCXYQN4OMRDIPF5F47A \
  | 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: 4b247c7a8215f106f1cc88d0f2f4bcf83ffffbef00c724ec94f1c9bee5f52a73

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c75f012c9e7484d5df46c6d6a560deedb80d3a875619a6d03267a1fa97a32ecb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL",
      "cs.IR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-06T17:23:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cbb56330904cc1c244636fd8c9949464a14b5ff73e41a601abb07c752802b146"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.06305",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}