Pith Number

pith:ZQHTOPTM

pith:2026:ZQHTOPTMM5TSNPGM5GRRFTQSTF

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The Crowded Embedding Space: A Mean-Field Mechanism for Emergent Marginalization in Retrieval-Augmented Agents

Dan Roth, Shwan Ashrafi

arxiv:2606.28343 v1 · 2026-06-01 · cs.IR · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZQHTOPTMM5TSNPGM5GRRFTQSTF}

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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	2026-06-30T00:15:11.443119Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cc0f373e6c676726bccce9a312ce129952694da3635b2a26ce4c1ce053ce8116

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.28343 · arxiv_version: 2606.28343v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.28343 · pith_short_12: ZQHTOPTMM5TS · pith_short_16: ZQHTOPTMM5TSNPGM · pith_short_8: ZQHTOPTM

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ZQHTOPTMM5TSNPGM5GRRFTQSTF \
  | 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: cc0f373e6c676726bccce9a312ce129952694da3635b2a26ce4c1ce053ce8116

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6cf164e5cf53496c3e012b2327ec006efb701655f832e36630648efdb1709598",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-01T20:40:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a2158a01df833dfe182c8fa8cbf0f5ecb76b0d50265be0db3e475900df7468e4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.28343",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}