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pith:UT7S4JRC

pith:2026:UT7S4JRCYA24NDHYTBKCERE4UJ

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The Case Against Generation for Retrieval: Discriminative Language Models as Effective Retrievers

Anil Ramakrishna, Ankit Peshin, Carl Hu, Chiyu Zhang, Feng Qi, Frank Shyu, Justin Johnson, Kaushik Rangadurai, Kavosh Asadi, Luke Simon, Mingfu Liang, Oladipo Ositelu, Prachi Agrawal, Sandeep Pandey, Tianyi Chen, Tik On Lui, Wuwei Lan, Xi Liu, Yang Yang, Zhe Xu

arxiv:2607.25346 v1 · 2026-07-28 · cs.IR

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First computed	2026-07-29T01:25:10.608351Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a4ff2e2622c035c68cf8985422449ca244e9f288967e084b9e48acb8e71ecebc

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.25346 · arxiv_version: 2607.25346v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.25346 · pith_short_12: UT7S4JRCYA24 · pith_short_16: UT7S4JRCYA24NDHY · pith_short_8: UT7S4JRC

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/UT7S4JRCYA24NDHYTBKCERE4UJ \
  | 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: a4ff2e2622c035c68cf8985422449ca244e9f288967e084b9e48acb8e71ecebc

Canonical record JSON

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    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-28T06:47:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f31e1215cdddb5a2a9f01c28b993bc6616cdc877b5fbaa2fb9575563df522d5a"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
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