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pith:NMNRHNFR

pith:2025:NMNRHNFRF5J3BSAHVQTPDEIEG2

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Frustratingly Simple Retrieval Improves Challenging, Reasoning-Intensive Benchmarks

Michael Duan, Pang Wei Koh, Rulin Shao, Sewon Min, Xinxi Lyu

arxiv:2507.01297 v2 · 2025-07-02 · cs.CL · cs.IR

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:32:33.234504Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

6b1b13b4b12f53b0c807ac26f1910436ac2d82a9be5ad9f0dc09463df60cccda

Aliases

arxiv: 2507.01297 · arxiv_version: 2507.01297v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2507.01297 · pith_short_12: NMNRHNFRF5J3 · pith_short_16: NMNRHNFRF5J3BSAH · pith_short_8: NMNRHNFR

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NMNRHNFRF5J3BSAHVQTPDEIEG2 \
  | 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: 6b1b13b4b12f53b0c807ac26f1910436ac2d82a9be5ad9f0dc09463df60cccda

Canonical record JSON

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    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2025-07-02T02:35:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "658fa7752fd3945baa8bd0a2a6c945a1f8b60ad3e7a40b5efb1eac8f59c49b4d"
  },
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