Pith Number

pith:U4LGYFAH

pith:2026:U4LGYFAH64AOWJUESDHTOHQBLC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Beyond Topical Similarity: Contrastive Evidence Retrieval with Interpretable Attention Alignment in RAG

Ameeta Agrawal, Andr\'e Freitas, Daniel Pedronette, Diego Alves, Francielle Vargas, Jo\~ao Robiatti, Lucas Pascotti Valem, Maximilian Seeth, Sebasti\'an Ferrada

arxiv:2606.01482 v1 · 2026-05-31 · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{U4LGYFAH64AOWJUESDHTOHQBLC}

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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	2026-06-02T02:04:34.535492Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a7166c1407f700eb268490cf371e01589aa0abd65b2f7ae1b2b493d3a12776fc

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.01482 · arxiv_version: 2606.01482v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.01482 · pith_short_12: U4LGYFAH64AO · pith_short_16: U4LGYFAH64AOWJUE · pith_short_8: U4LGYFAH

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/U4LGYFAH64AOWJUESDHTOHQBLC \
  | 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: a7166c1407f700eb268490cf371e01589aa0abd65b2f7ae1b2b493d3a12776fc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a3981b41795051e7a0233d9cb81c43d613422a95977ec3419bed80073a340151",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-31T22:54:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d87a3f027775e93cfa1aaaf540639ceb6b16956b437b5f7f66dc27d28aae9494"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.01482",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}