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pith:W3WUYNPW

pith:2025:W3WUYNPWKQAXUZUDG2HXVVYEL5

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Rethinking Hybrid Retrieval: When Small Embeddings and LLM Re-ranking Beat Bigger Models

Arjun Rao, Hanieh Alipour, Nick Pendar

arxiv:2506.00049 v1 · 2025-05-28 · cs.IR · cs.AI

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\pithnumber{W3WUYNPWKQAXUZUDG2HXVVYEL5}

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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.

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:13:28.121106Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b6ed4c35f654017a6683368f7ad7045f670d2de898042390364c7d5afa51103f

Aliases

arxiv: 2506.00049 · arxiv_version: 2506.00049v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.00049 · pith_short_12: W3WUYNPWKQAX · pith_short_16: W3WUYNPWKQAXUZUD · pith_short_8: W3WUYNPW

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/W3WUYNPWKQAXUZUDG2HXVVYEL5 \
  | 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: b6ed4c35f654017a6683368f7ad7045f670d2de898042390364c7d5afa51103f

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fa3efb6795950dac763f95e02c240c86dc88c147103944a5341ba2e7cb8a7a3a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IR",
    "submitted_at": "2025-05-28T18:39:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e10c367824cb7ef6c81f58fc9939b2126f27f586b9d6e9e222f01f5133efdc10"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2506.00049",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}