Pith Number

pith:SGTVISVE

pith:2026:SGTVISVE24WIPBCJ7ISJDFRX3C

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Understanding and Debugging Failures in N-Gram-Based Generative Retrieval

Adrian Bracher, Richard Takacs, Svitlana Vakulenko

arxiv:2606.17721 v1 · 2026-06-16 · cs.IR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SGTVISVE24WIPBCJ7ISJDFRX3C}

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-06-19T16:10:20.316556Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

91a7544aa4d72c878449fa24919637d89fcad5b4de8f61ae79b7d44ed7453271

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.17721 · arxiv_version: 2606.17721v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.17721 · pith_short_12: SGTVISVE24WI · pith_short_16: SGTVISVE24WIPBCJ · pith_short_8: SGTVISVE

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/SGTVISVE24WIPBCJ7ISJDFRX3C \
  | 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: 91a7544aa4d72c878449fa24919637d89fcad5b4de8f61ae79b7d44ed7453271

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7ca1343b88a26994c85a915546c3b613f029472e7db9668823f26849994ccbf1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-16T09:35:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5e34c4569def915b1e96bc8bed305044553f6174ac56581bcd2e8acbe09cf4ee"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.17721",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}