Pith Number

pith:Z563KD5D

pith:2026:Z563KD5DJ7XCHRBVQ4FLFDQRCB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Is GraphRAG Needed? From Basic RAG to Graph-/Agentic Solutions with Context Optimization

Disha Ahuja, Long Chen, Rahul Ghosh, Ryan Razkenari, Venkatesh Pappakrishnan, Vidya Sagar Ravipati, Yuan Tian, Yuxuan Zhou

arxiv:2606.25656 v1 · 2026-06-24 · cs.CL · cs.AI · cs.IR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Z563KD5DJ7XCHRBVQ4FLFDQRCB}

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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	2026-06-25T01:18:11.936472Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cf7db50fa34fee23c435870ab28e1110552c64dd6f1294ae8e57491007f48082

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.25656 · arxiv_version: 2606.25656v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.25656 · pith_short_12: Z563KD5DJ7XC · pith_short_16: Z563KD5DJ7XCHRBV · pith_short_8: Z563KD5D

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/Z563KD5DJ7XCHRBVQ4FLFDQRCB \
  | 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: cf7db50fa34fee23c435870ab28e1110552c64dd6f1294ae8e57491007f48082

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "87301084fe27da7925db3105638606ad31c8875830c24d34433965370a4a81ad",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.IR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-24T10:11:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c0ffdc473ebe2b0efde4ad8373fd542ca74cfac2a65dab2d8bf2d26d91f4bf40"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.25656",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}