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pith:X3XFOMA3

pith:2025:X3XFOMA3RG5JE7G57MTWAOSQSQ

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Comparing RAG and GraphRAG for Page-Level Retrieval Question Answering on a Math Textbook

Chuangji Li, Eason Chen, Eric Li, Jionghao Lin, Kenneth R. Koedinger, Zimo Xiao

arxiv:2509.16780 v3 · 2025-09-20 · cs.IR · cs.AI · cs.HC

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First computed	2026-07-29T01:25:29.375764Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

beee57301b89ba927cddfb27603a50943e9bb0c97a032071d12cd127b252fd60

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arxiv: 2509.16780 · arxiv_version: 2509.16780v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2509.16780 · pith_short_12: X3XFOMA3RG5J · pith_short_16: X3XFOMA3RG5JE7G5 · pith_short_8: X3XFOMA3

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/X3XFOMA3RG5JE7G57MTWAOSQSQ \
  | 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: beee57301b89ba927cddfb27603a50943e9bb0c97a032071d12cd127b252fd60

Canonical record JSON

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    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IR",
    "submitted_at": "2025-09-20T19:06:49Z",
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