Pith Number

pith:ZYBTSGAO

pith:2026:ZYBTSGAO62EBLPGS4BPNRE7WX5

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On the impact of retrieved content representations in RAG Pipelines

Anton van der Vegt, Bevan Koopman, Guido Zuccon, Jonathan J Ross

arxiv:2605.30790 v1 · 2026-05-29 · cs.IR · cs.AI · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZYBTSGAO62EBLPGS4BPNRE7WX5}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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	2026-06-01T01:03:16.803854Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ce0339180ef68815bcd2e05ed893f6bf72fa5bc56c609e27b426d514c8323a73

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.30790 · arxiv_version: 2605.30790v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.30790 · pith_short_12: ZYBTSGAO62EB · pith_short_16: ZYBTSGAO62EBLPGS · pith_short_8: ZYBTSGAO

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/ZYBTSGAO62EBLPGS4BPNRE7WX5 \
  | 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: ce0339180ef68815bcd2e05ed893f6bf72fa5bc56c609e27b426d514c8323a73

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bb827f44c32b7d3dc7af953feb624b928d5ae1597c72a5e14db35f81935c4002",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-29T03:26:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2a74df3b9c5d850aeff370415a28d1583316b95e83e9ff272a2f5e3f41d46eb1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.30790",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}