Pith Number

pith:ELFR6MBZ

pith:2021:ELFR6MBZOJN6WHVC5ZCJY7BTFL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Significant Improvements over the State of the Art? A Case Study of the MS MARCO Document Ranking Leaderboard

Bhaskar Mitra, Daniel Campos, Emine Yilmaz, Jimmy Lin, Nick Craswell

arxiv:2102.12887 v1 · 2021-02-25 · cs.IR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ELFR6MBZOJN6WHVC5ZCJY7BTFL}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-07-05T02:18:24.474336Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

22cb1f3039725beb1ea2ee449c7c332adc3744a5dd1714e6f29f87c4a03de67a

Aliases

arxiv: 2102.12887 · arxiv_version: 2102.12887v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2102.12887 · pith_short_12: ELFR6MBZOJN6 · pith_short_16: ELFR6MBZOJN6WHVC · pith_short_8: ELFR6MBZ

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/ELFR6MBZOJN6WHVC5ZCJY7BTFL \
  | 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: 22cb1f3039725beb1ea2ee449c7c332adc3744a5dd1714e6f29f87c4a03de67a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5f997755dd855605f34f8fca756e81d51e1406a935df8b76e367d5887a23f943",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IR",
    "submitted_at": "2021-02-25T14:42:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6e3e15d28349ef17a75c6c75dd12fa71d7baa9bdc7044067549a3a59363311bf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2102.12887",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}