Pith Number

pith:AIYM7H2R

pith:2026:AIYM7H2RXYQOVE4RREYB3POFRE

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Vector RAG vs LLM-Compiled Wiki: A Preregistered Comparison on a Small Multi-Domain Research

Theodore O. Cochran

arxiv:2605.18490 v1 · 2026-05-18 · cs.CL · cs.IR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AIYM7H2RXYQOVE4RREYB3POFRE}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-20T00:06:03.912062Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0230cf9f51be20ea939189301dbdc58916c12521177aa867a80f18c1e70cff53

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.18490 · arxiv_version: 2605.18490v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.18490 · pith_short_12: AIYM7H2RXYQO · pith_short_16: AIYM7H2RXYQOVE4R · pith_short_8: AIYM7H2R

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/AIYM7H2RXYQOVE4RREYB3POFRE \
  | 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: 0230cf9f51be20ea939189301dbdc58916c12521177aa867a80f18c1e70cff53

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2e1e3c8465ee02355015536f3f84c19535256600c5ea02093c92d5fd0de5a6b1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IR"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-18T14:41:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3bd83ca9ad3c0e0b5fef3c7086248e5f49465b1d1761a4f324992936bf25c9ab"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.18490",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}