Pith Number

pith:VBXEEFAK

pith:2023:VBXEEFAKLKPCPCZXRSSKYCPUMW

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End-to-End Beam Retrieval for Multi-Hop Question Answering

Dongmei Zhang, Haiyang Zhang, Jiahao Zhang, Shen Huang, Yong Liu

arxiv:2308.08973 v2 · 2023-08-17 · cs.CL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VBXEEFAKLKPCPCZXRSSKYCPUMW}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-07-05T08:02:45.619071Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a86e42140a5a9e278b378ca4ac09f465bdc22f2639029da4f15700b7dd06693c

Aliases

arxiv: 2308.08973 · arxiv_version: 2308.08973v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2308.08973 · pith_short_12: VBXEEFAKLKPC · pith_short_16: VBXEEFAKLKPCPCZX · pith_short_8: VBXEEFAK

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/VBXEEFAKLKPCPCZXRSSKYCPUMW \
  | 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: a86e42140a5a9e278b378ca4ac09f465bdc22f2639029da4f15700b7dd06693c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "361dac8ae35caa449606aa742c95a5aae5fddd41cf028fb2da10b2dacf516a15",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2023-08-17T13:24:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8808a1a8a39490a466f6fb06d17258a53a629289c92e7e8ede5926e292fef83f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2308.08973",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}