Pith Number

pith:2WAQYDYY

pith:2018:2WAQYDYYEWLTPUCDMDYQ2NGM5D

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Index-Based Policy for Risk-Averse Multi-Armed Bandit

Jianyu Xu, William B. Haskell, Zhisheng Ye

arxiv:1809.05385 v1 · 2018-09-14 · math.OC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2WAQYDYYEWLTPUCDMDYQ2NGM5D}

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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	2026-05-18T00:05:41.609723Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d5810c0f18259737d04360f10d34cce8d9564a7e6cb57ef19e97442174ac3d8a

Aliases

arxiv: 1809.05385 · arxiv_version: 1809.05385v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1809.05385 · pith_short_12: 2WAQYDYYEWLT · pith_short_16: 2WAQYDYYEWLTPUCD · pith_short_8: 2WAQYDYY

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/2WAQYDYYEWLTPUCDMDYQ2NGM5D \
  | 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: d5810c0f18259737d04360f10d34cce8d9564a7e6cb57ef19e97442174ac3d8a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6a528d2af1e7075b96ae69b19dffdb198d06d0bb0dc41d6fc70a7db72e2a8faa",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-09-14T13:04:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "65042778d8fee6cf5322720ba874c202c7500327a606c15c9e377df59e95afa0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1809.05385",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}