Pith Number

pith:3MMNWZEQ

pith:2017:3MMNWZEQYNBAPPSHLVA2DHU2X5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Utilizing Embeddings for Ad-hoc Retrieval by Document-to-document Similarity

Ben He, Chenhao Yang, Yanhua Ran

arxiv:1708.03181 v1 · 2017-08-10 · cs.IR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3MMNWZEQYNBAPPSHLVA2DHU2X5}

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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	2026-05-18T00:38:14.543014Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

db18db6490c34207be475d41a19e9abf5dce94d914dd180ade4047af354331b2

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.03181 · arxiv_version: 1708.03181v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.03181 · pith_short_12: 3MMNWZEQYNBA · pith_short_16: 3MMNWZEQYNBAPPSH · pith_short_8: 3MMNWZEQ

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/3MMNWZEQYNBAPPSHLVA2DHU2X5 \
  | 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: db18db6490c34207be475d41a19e9abf5dce94d914dd180ade4047af354331b2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e08fd584d32ff48af86fedb92e0f4aea6d44115c3929a686f656bfbbd2eba630",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-10T12:33:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a8da08e534d0491bb4d73600995a89249a9da79818a4bfe8139623c8cad7f926"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.03181",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}