Pith Number

pith:NWMSNIZ6

pith:2026:NWMSNIZ6HYF63EAVWUUP733SW2

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Navigating the Shift: A Comparative Analysis of Web Search and Generative AI Response Generation

Kaiwen Chen, Mahe Chen, Nick Koudas, Xiaoxuan Wang

arxiv:2601.16858 v2 · 2026-01-23 · cs.IR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NWMSNIZ6HYF63EAVWUUP733SW2}

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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	2026-05-20T00:03:02.959879Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6d9926a33e3e0bed9015b528ffef72b6b4a1a1675db6750a453100c0d8f56c6c

Aliases

arxiv: 2601.16858 · arxiv_version: 2601.16858v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2601.16858 · pith_short_12: NWMSNIZ6HYF6 · pith_short_16: NWMSNIZ6HYF63EAV · pith_short_8: NWMSNIZ6

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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/NWMSNIZ6HYF63EAVWUUP733SW2 \
  | 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: 6d9926a33e3e0bed9015b528ffef72b6b4a1a1675db6750a453100c0d8f56c6c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "02a49ace42ceb89665cf42a7f306af7b5cd2283cc7b17f3a7738f3164f40a28e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-01-23T16:06:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "343fd372979d60021b59c1de22a329a85c09bdf1d28b121258628e100739d686"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2601.16858",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}