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pith:PJ5A4CQH

pith:2025:PJ5A4CQHTTLUMCXTY4WA3QCR2P

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Provence: efficient and robust context pruning for retrieval-augmented generation

Nadezhda Chirkova, St\'ephane Clinchant, Thibault Formal, Vassilina Nikoulina

arxiv:2501.16214 v1 · 2025-01-27 · cs.CL · cs.IR

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First computed	2026-07-05T10:07:29.831583Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7a7a0e0a079cd7460af3c72c0dc051d3d255658730d59b4d173c9d7c112c80b7

Aliases

arxiv: 2501.16214 · arxiv_version: 2501.16214v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2501.16214 · pith_short_12: PJ5A4CQHTTLU · pith_short_16: PJ5A4CQHTTLUMCXT · pith_short_8: PJ5A4CQH

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/PJ5A4CQHTTLUMCXTY4WA3QCR2P \
  | 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: 7a7a0e0a079cd7460af3c72c0dc051d3d255658730d59b4d173c9d7c112c80b7

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2025-01-27T17:06:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "416096d44b69ae37b14765a68d48a34f599a0609188e1cf5ed06f116beb1cee1"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}