Pith Number

pith:Z4N74UJS

pith:2026:Z4N74UJSNCBI25Z2EQTXLAVTWR

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Interpretable Uncertainty for Adaptive Retrieval and Reasoning in Question Answering

Graham McDonald, Iadh Ounis, Ritajit Dey

arxiv:2607.07380 v1 · 2026-07-08 · cs.IR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Z4N74UJSNCBI25Z2EQTXLAVTWR}

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4 Citations open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-09T01:20:23.357012Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cf1bfe513268828d773a24277582b3b44d219efc421b2694118e477510e2a384

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.07380 · arxiv_version: 2607.07380v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.07380 · pith_short_12: Z4N74UJSNCBI · pith_short_16: Z4N74UJSNCBI25Z2 · pith_short_8: Z4N74UJS

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/Z4N74UJSNCBI25Z2EQTXLAVTWR \
  | 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: cf1bfe513268828d773a24277582b3b44d219efc421b2694118e477510e2a384

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "28d980f606938d4fc18e9ca57c4e0d74bdaee79e3fb2f0795dfadcb9e60702c7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-08T13:12:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ce385784664a8a029854eb4f7e40a1c799afce09400ba2fba0b756412af51ff1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.07380",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}