Pith Number

pith:2S3LLRXG

pith:2018:2S3LLRXGQSCKBNESZA4JYP7DHT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Garbage In, Reward Out: Bootstrapping Exploration in Multi-Armed Bandits

Branislav Kveton, Csaba Szepesvari, Mohammad Ghavamzadeh, Sharan Vaswani, Tor Lattimore, Zheng Wen

arxiv:1811.05154 v3 · 2018-11-13 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2S3LLRXGQSCKBNESZA4JYP7DHT}

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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	2026-05-17T23:42:48.764182Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d4b6b5c6e68484a0b492c8389c3fe33ce268a4ba2d3b62f572fb35a2e7bd5bee

Aliases

arxiv: 1811.05154 · arxiv_version: 1811.05154v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1811.05154 · pith_short_12: 2S3LLRXGQSCK · pith_short_16: 2S3LLRXGQSCKBNES · pith_short_8: 2S3LLRXG

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/2S3LLRXGQSCKBNESZA4JYP7DHT \
  | 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: d4b6b5c6e68484a0b492c8389c3fe33ce268a4ba2d3b62f572fb35a2e7bd5bee

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0ba5b665c73ae751b4059961ae2beaebb8017dbe5454fd4c7aac89ee57ca2c80",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2018-11-13T08:15:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "640ebca79643c3fa14ba7d0486da6131efd4b8f9dc452348af67652d7ada2690"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1811.05154",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}