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pith:PPV2HATU

pith:2025:PPV2HATULXMDG2AE6TTQDBVMBC

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Revisiting RAG Ensemble: A Theoretical and Mechanistic Analysis of Multi-RAG System Collaboration

Guanting Dong, Yifei Chen, Yutao Zhu, Zhicheng Dou

arxiv:2508.13828 v1 · 2025-08-19 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PPV2HATULXMDG2AE6TTQDBVMBC}

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:56:08.229166Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7beba382745dd8336804f4e70186ac089df62f1089e666d377f1853db37f1475

Aliases

arxiv: 2508.13828 · arxiv_version: 2508.13828v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2508.13828 · pith_short_12: PPV2HATULXMD · pith_short_16: PPV2HATULXMDG2AE · pith_short_8: PPV2HATU

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/PPV2HATULXMDG2AE6TTQDBVMBC \
  | 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: 7beba382745dd8336804f4e70186ac089df62f1089e666d377f1853db37f1475

Canonical record JSON

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    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ea536b9879453bb48119f0b0a376f7ce7033acd018096beac5388d435ba8d46a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2025-08-19T13:38:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "55f7b5c721fcd03c6c7f4b5c8f11e5a67de798140eda4ebeb5263aa8f5b38274"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2508.13828",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}