Pith Number

pith:KA3ACDQL

pith:2025:KA3ACDQLNN5WQF4KRJVN2VGOXZ

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Fishing for Answers: Exploring One-shot vs. Iterative Retrieval Strategies for Retrieval Augmented Generation

Gang Su, Huifeng Lin, Jintao Liang, Rui Zhao, You Wu, Ziyue Li

arxiv:2509.04820 v1 · 2025-09-05 · cs.IR

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First computed	2026-07-05T12:05:30.297694Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5036010e0b6b7b68178a8a6add54cebe4e32456ae208e380650a995752024350

Aliases

arxiv: 2509.04820 · arxiv_version: 2509.04820v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2509.04820 · pith_short_12: KA3ACDQLNN5W · pith_short_16: KA3ACDQLNN5WQF4K · pith_short_8: KA3ACDQL

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/KA3ACDQLNN5WQF4KRJVN2VGOXZ \
  | 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: 5036010e0b6b7b68178a8a6add54cebe4e32456ae208e380650a995752024350

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IR",
    "submitted_at": "2025-09-05T05:44:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4888e0f8cbc36f5309720ad674e0cff2b599c8f2eea99e3ec6c10ab230f4c57b"
  },
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  "source": {
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  }
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