Pith Number

pith:NXKKKL4S

pith:2026:NXKKKL4SMPHMTOTPMSHGQRSVJZ

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The Token Tax of Epistemic Accuracy: Comparing RAG and Long-Context Architectures for Document-Grounded Generative AI Applications

Arthur Carvalho, Austin Hamilton, Fadel M. Megahed, Ibrahim Yousif, Lora A. Cavuoto, Michael Wise, Mohammad Mayyas, Ryan Singh, Zhe Shan

arxiv:2606.20898 v1 · 2026-06-18 · cs.IR · cs.AI · cs.CL · cs.CY

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NXKKKL4SMPHMTOTPMSHGQRSVJZ}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-06-23T00:12:02.166750Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6dd4a52f9263cec9ba6f648e6846554e73cc867f81269d4581c70dcb8ed3d551

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.20898 · arxiv_version: 2606.20898v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.20898 · pith_short_12: NXKKKL4SMPHM · pith_short_16: NXKKKL4SMPHMTOTP · pith_short_8: NXKKKL4S

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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/NXKKKL4SMPHMTOTPMSHGQRSVJZ \
  | 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: 6dd4a52f9263cec9ba6f648e6846554e73cc867f81269d4581c70dcb8ed3d551

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7cedccbd21834948b728b48d9f8b1fe61db2f861f23bb5afd5930b2de56071e4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.CL",
      "cs.CY"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-18T19:49:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ae3cb3f125fd23113f955c89ad723384770e83a50a14dcdb84b5a9fd4174696f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.20898",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}