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pith:Q6MBXSBY

pith:2025:Q6MBXSBYTKQJQDVVDOKLJ652LO

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HARMONY: A Scalable Distributed Vector Database for High-Throughput Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search

Chengxi Li, Feng Zhang, Jidong Zhai, Lei Cao, Qian Xu, Xiaoyong Du, Zheng Chen

arxiv:2506.14707 v1 · 2025-06-17 · cs.DB

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:23:11.572076Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

87981bc8389aa0980eb51b94b4fbba5bab43572068509be61dd9cca43a66124c

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arxiv: 2506.14707 · arxiv_version: 2506.14707v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.14707 · pith_short_12: Q6MBXSBYTKQJ · pith_short_16: Q6MBXSBYTKQJQDVV · pith_short_8: Q6MBXSBY

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/Q6MBXSBYTKQJQDVVDOKLJ652LO \
  | 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: 87981bc8389aa0980eb51b94b4fbba5bab43572068509be61dd9cca43a66124c

Canonical record JSON

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    "primary_cat": "cs.DB",
    "submitted_at": "2025-06-17T16:45:42Z",
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  },
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