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pith:2021:KBNTB5YJJG3UTXK4OIXCSUVMKL

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ColBERTv2: Effective and Efficient Retrieval via Lightweight Late Interaction

Christopher Potts, Jon Saad-Falcon, Keshav Santhanam, Matei Zaharia, Omar Khattab

arxiv:2112.01488 v3 · 2021-12-02 · cs.IR · cs.CL

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First computed	2026-07-05T04:38:46.283723Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
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Canonical hash

505b30f70949b749dd5c722e2952ac52e699f8d4e9c93ceff544d1b2bca19f26

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arxiv: 2112.01488 · arxiv_version: 2112.01488v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2112.01488 · pith_short_12: KBNTB5YJJG3U · pith_short_16: KBNTB5YJJG3UTXK4 · pith_short_8: KBNTB5YJ

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/KBNTB5YJJG3UTXK4OIXCSUVMKL \
  | 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: 505b30f70949b749dd5c722e2952ac52e699f8d4e9c93ceff544d1b2bca19f26

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