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pith:RP5TWVBD

pith:2025:RP5TWVBDFBX43JG3XVYXVUJ5OK

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What to Retrieve for Effective Retrieval-Augmented Code Generation? An Empirical Study and Beyond

Juntao Chen, Mingwei Liu, Tianyue Jiang, Wenchao Gu, Xilin Liu, Xingzhe Li, Yanlin Wang, Yuchi Ma, Zibin Zheng

arxiv:2503.20589 v1 · 2025-03-26 · cs.SE

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First computed	2026-07-05T10:39:40.891302Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8bfb3b5423286fcda4dbbd717ad13d72b93f269ed672c532a56257e7382620c4

Aliases

arxiv: 2503.20589 · arxiv_version: 2503.20589v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2503.20589 · pith_short_12: RP5TWVBDFBX4 · pith_short_16: RP5TWVBDFBX43JG3 · pith_short_8: RP5TWVBD

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RP5TWVBDFBX43JG3XVYXVUJ5OK \
  | 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: 8bfb3b5423286fcda4dbbd717ad13d72b93f269ed672c532a56257e7382620c4

Canonical record JSON

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    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2025-03-26T14:41:38Z",
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  },
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