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pith:2024:Y3AD556WCQXCRU6JBAJYRETBYW

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Understanding the Fundamental Design Decisions of Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems

Chengcheng Wan, Jiayang Song, Lei Ma, Shengming Zhao, Yuchen Shao, Yuheng Huang, Zhijie Wang

arxiv:2411.19463 v3 · 2024-11-29 · cs.SE · cs.AI

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First computed	2026-06-01T01:02:13.598484Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
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Canonical hash

c6c03ef7d6142e28d3c90813889261c5b6545b79b0d53685c6bc227d730282ea

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arxiv: 2411.19463 · arxiv_version: 2411.19463v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2411.19463 · pith_short_12: Y3AD556WCQXC · pith_short_16: Y3AD556WCQXCRU6J · pith_short_8: Y3AD556W

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/Y3AD556WCQXCRU6JBAJYRETBYW \
  | 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: c6c03ef7d6142e28d3c90813889261c5b6545b79b0d53685c6bc227d730282ea

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    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2024-11-29T04:25:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "290559289f1b558b8e536d21bb0ebc9ea8474f7c720f20e52942d1e2a03d1e48"
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