Pith Number

pith:3KKXJWNO

pith:2025:3KKXJWNOQZXJ7V5XXBE6NJWH2M

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Using causal abstractions to accelerate decision-making in complex bandit problems

Anisoara Calinescu, Fabio Massimo Zennaro, Joel Dyer, Michael Wooldridge, Nicholas Bishop

arxiv:2509.04296 v1 · 2025-09-04 · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3KKXJWNOQZXJ7V5XXBE6NJWH2M}

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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	2026-07-05T12:04:56.885952Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

da9574d9ae866e9fd7b7b849e6a6c7d32f230711d7027ad3fb1ea1a09832a631

Aliases

arxiv: 2509.04296 · arxiv_version: 2509.04296v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2509.04296 · pith_short_12: 3KKXJWNOQZXJ · pith_short_16: 3KKXJWNOQZXJ7V5X · pith_short_8: 3KKXJWNO

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/3KKXJWNOQZXJ7V5XXBE6NJWH2M \
  | 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: da9574d9ae866e9fd7b7b849e6a6c7d32f230711d7027ad3fb1ea1a09832a631

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b32744e760ccc7aee51a3e712ceab0515a31f424cedce814b909fa08ae0661ac",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2025-09-04T15:11:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "db1d4c17921521f4fd4fa0226d29ae9f6a821d1b8f0dbf54d3dfb4a3de9fcab9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2509.04296",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}