Pith Number

pith:MRUM4JJG

pith:2016:MRUM4JJGQ7QKQIITYSHDAIZ6N2

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Off the Beaten Path: Let's Replace Term-Based Retrieval with k-NN Search

David Novak, Eric Nyberg, Leonid Boytsov, Yury Malkov

arxiv:1610.10001 v1 · 2016-10-31 · cs.IR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MRUM4JJGQ7QKQIITYSHDAIZ6N2}

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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	2026-05-18T01:00:46.757531Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6468ce252687e0a82113c48e30233e6e85df60cd85fc3354f6edc30ccc90276f

Aliases

arxiv: 1610.10001 · arxiv_version: 1610.10001v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1610.10001 · pith_short_12: MRUM4JJGQ7QK · pith_short_16: MRUM4JJGQ7QKQIIT · pith_short_8: MRUM4JJG

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MRUM4JJGQ7QKQIITYSHDAIZ6N2 \
  | 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: 6468ce252687e0a82113c48e30233e6e85df60cd85fc3354f6edc30ccc90276f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2259f4785292d937667c83f945dbb2bf08c99924aa6dd3de9355eb3cd4149130",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IR",
    "submitted_at": "2016-10-31T16:27:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e0cc262719ffd48de03f272843c53981fb35d4dfe7d13ff62679f950bd0788c7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1610.10001",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}