Pith Number

pith:KIISQNIQ

pith:2026:KIISQNIQXPJMZVGTVY767ZAG7J

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

When Confidence Takes the Wrong Path: Diagnosing Retrieval-State Lock-In in RAG

Sahib Julka

arxiv:2606.22728 v1 · 2026-06-22 · cs.CL · cs.AI

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KIISQNIQXPJMZVGTVY767ZAG7J}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-06-23T02:13:45.812446Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5211283510bbd2ccd4d3ae3fefe406fa77521db25451866d0ee2b0ea7011f729

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.22728 · arxiv_version: 2606.22728v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.22728 · pith_short_12: KIISQNIQXPJM · pith_short_16: KIISQNIQXPJMZVGT · pith_short_8: KIISQNIQ

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/KIISQNIQXPJMZVGTVY767ZAG7J \
  | 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: 5211283510bbd2ccd4d3ae3fefe406fa77521db25451866d0ee2b0ea7011f729

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cfcc601d73cb44c84e4032d770c8524e3feffc491b962e4bf4c0767d0ac5f88a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-22T00:08:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6ebeee186621481c6aa03371ad5b96b7b508d5b12c386e74f09ef8df3d72b650"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.22728",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}