Pith Number

pith:PCIWNIXI

pith:2026:PCIWNIXIGJ53ZH2ERAQU64CDTU

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The 99% Success Paradox: When Near-Perfect Retrieval Equals Random Selection

Akash Vishwakarma, Ameya Gawde, Cien Zhang, Harshvardhan Singh, Michael Wyatt Thot, Svetlana Karslioglu, Tony Joseph, Vyzantinos Repantis

arxiv:2605.18857 v1 · 2026-05-14 · cs.IR · cs.AI · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PCIWNIXIGJ53ZH2ERAQU64CDTU}

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4 Citations open

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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	2026-05-20T00:06:26.018050Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

789166a2e8327bbc9f4488214f70439d387eea4fa1e1f698991a72a463892672

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.18857 · arxiv_version: 2605.18857v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.18857 · pith_short_12: PCIWNIXIGJ53 · pith_short_16: PCIWNIXIGJ53ZH2E · pith_short_8: PCIWNIXI

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/PCIWNIXIGJ53ZH2ERAQU64CDTU \
  | 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: 789166a2e8327bbc9f4488214f70439d387eea4fa1e1f698991a72a463892672

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fb6e27ce9045f80fe4ebe89c6a66c4ee74f42cfdb56d7485a5da08bc952843a2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-14T00:19:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f8f1113118c240fce89e78996570e74c059ca96f3e9142efadb09849d190bce1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.18857",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}