Pith Number

pith:WKSTUGW5

pith:2026:WKSTUGW5CECR65GAYDGJFRKC3V

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Paraphrase Brittleness in Production Retrieval-Augmented Commercial Recommendation: Reproducibility Below the Rerun-Stability Baseline

Keller Maloney, Noah Lehman, Sarah Xu, Will Jack

arxiv:2605.27440 v1 · 2026-05-22 · cs.IR · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WKSTUGW5CECR65GAYDGJFRKC3V}

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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	2026-05-28T00:05:18.879753Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b2a53a1add11051f74c0c0cc92c542dd79023b2ef413aa832a4735927da80b9a

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.27440 · arxiv_version: 2605.27440v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.27440 · pith_short_12: WKSTUGW5CECR · pith_short_16: WKSTUGW5CECR65GA · pith_short_8: WKSTUGW5

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/WKSTUGW5CECR65GAYDGJFRKC3V \
  | 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: b2a53a1add11051f74c0c0cc92c542dd79023b2ef413aa832a4735927da80b9a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9e96499fa35500822e9ce828fdecd7e8de38b4ea060586e9e19505e5b5f49496",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-22T17:23:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1cd35fd418bc1bb937506eb793fe0b4dc3e0b3eb6b62adc63aa6e8029b86f07d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.27440",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}