Pith Number

pith:2VWRUUBT

pith:2015:2VWRUUBTAVMOWCQYNSBAFRNSER

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

An Asymptotically Optimal Policy for Uniform Bandits of Unknown Support

Michael N. Katehakis, Wesley Cowan

arxiv:1505.01918 v3 · 2015-05-08 · stat.ML · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2VWRUUBTAVMOWCQYNSBAFRNSER}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:32:10.335158Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d56d1a50330558eb0a186c8202c5b2244de3ac7ec4fdfba0f9be5f893843ba3c

Aliases

arxiv: 1505.01918 · arxiv_version: 1505.01918v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1505.01918 · pith_short_12: 2VWRUUBTAVMO · pith_short_16: 2VWRUUBTAVMOWCQY · pith_short_8: 2VWRUUBT

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/2VWRUUBTAVMOWCQYNSBAFRNSER \
  | 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: d56d1a50330558eb0a186c8202c5b2244de3ac7ec4fdfba0f9be5f893843ba3c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f2d4f645b63886f009de4e55ae5695610923e9ca49e39e86f7fc8eeb9bdac0f2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2015-05-08T03:15:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3bb1687f9ab61d2cb3fc6f468c21e98bf47ef5e32ebe848cb32fc002d4b20c55"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1505.01918",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}