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pith:OUYLA4KZ

pith:2021:OUYLA4KZIPSIKHQSBVSS4LQNEP

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Interpreting Dense Retrieval as Mixture of Topics

Jiafeng Guo, Jiaxin Mao, Jingtao Zhan, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, Yiqun Liu

arxiv:2111.13957 v1 · 2021-11-27 · cs.IR

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Decoding Dense Embeddings: Sparse Autoencoders for Interpreting and Discretizing Dense Retrieval

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First computed	2026-07-05T03:35:37.528028Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

7530b0715943e4851e120d652e2e0d23da9fa7b8dc6576ac2934f575ac47811a

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arxiv: 2111.13957 · arxiv_version: 2111.13957v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2111.13957 · pith_short_12: OUYLA4KZIPSI · pith_short_16: OUYLA4KZIPSIKHQS · pith_short_8: OUYLA4KZ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/OUYLA4KZIPSIKHQSBVSS4LQNEP \
  | 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: 7530b0715943e4851e120d652e2e0d23da9fa7b8dc6576ac2934f575ac47811a

Canonical record JSON

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    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IR",
    "submitted_at": "2021-11-27T18:35:44Z",
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  }
}