Pith Number

pith:PWJ4D3EE

pith:2026:PWJ4D3EENKPFBKGEO26U2XMZJH

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Which RAG Paradigm Wins at Scale? A Scaling Study of Retrieval-Augmented Generation Paradigms

Benfeng Xu, Huarui Wu, Lei Zhang, Licheng Zhang, Pengyu Wang, Shaohan Wang, Xin Zeng

arxiv:2607.26497 v1 · 2026-07-29 · cs.CL

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First computed	2026-07-30T01:20:40.580760Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	unsigned_v0
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7d93c1ec846a9e50a8c476bd4d5d9949c7d72f75eea2778f39a8f05ed82c8dde

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.26497 · arxiv_version: 2607.26497v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.26497 · pith_short_12: PWJ4D3EENKPF · pith_short_16: PWJ4D3EENKPFBKGE · pith_short_8: PWJ4D3EE

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/PWJ4D3EENKPFBKGEO26U2XMZJH \
  | 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: 7d93c1ec846a9e50a8c476bd4d5d9949c7d72f75eea2778f39a8f05ed82c8dde

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1d533b7b6f942f71f05c945514e550522c79988f0c68a2bba98a5cbdcdfd6a2e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-29T05:46:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "61e4e85d6f5d88d03f9dd32632f85565688c0f83349d7ede45cd85a1b483e3fe"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.26497",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}