Pith Number

pith:KVPX66DL

pith:2025:KVPX66DL2NZRWNK4P5MRLMVOVN

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On Precomputation and Caching in Information Retrieval Experiments with Pipeline Architectures

Craig Macdonald, Sean MacAvaney

arxiv:2504.09984 v1 · 2025-04-14 · cs.IR

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\pithnumber{KVPX66DL2NZRWNK4P5MRLMVOVN}

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First computed	2026-07-05T10:48:45.978426Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

555f7f786bd3731b355c7f5915b2aeab53da3116db88eec741b8cbc108fe9188

Aliases

arxiv: 2504.09984 · arxiv_version: 2504.09984v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2504.09984 · pith_short_12: KVPX66DL2NZR · pith_short_16: KVPX66DL2NZRWNK4 · pith_short_8: KVPX66DL

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/KVPX66DL2NZRWNK4P5MRLMVOVN \
  | 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: 555f7f786bd3731b355c7f5915b2aeab53da3116db88eec741b8cbc108fe9188

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1e98a2b8ffca69f4cf3af16ee7ced3a7e06d994995d2f1ea479285d932c590d1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IR",
    "submitted_at": "2025-04-14T08:51:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3e5cfa9bdfde50d00341bee57204a62aac581eefbed12efd7c7141cfbe264801"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2504.09984",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}