Pith Number

pith:4HI3VXLC

pith:2017:4HI3VXLCOGZLCLJH6NFSEBCF53

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Practical Algorithms for Best-K Identification in Multi-Armed Bandits

Haotian Jiang, Jian Li, Mingda Qiao

arxiv:1705.06894 v1 · 2017-05-19 · cs.LG · cs.DS · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4HI3VXLCOGZLCLJH6NFSEBCF53}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:44:11.023861Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e1d1badd6271b2b12d27f34b220445eed833ade612b038ae1599ea9f8b8c3803

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.06894 · arxiv_version: 1705.06894v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.06894 · pith_short_12: 4HI3VXLCOGZL · pith_short_16: 4HI3VXLCOGZLCLJH · pith_short_8: 4HI3VXLC

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4HI3VXLCOGZLCLJH6NFSEBCF53 \
  | 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: e1d1badd6271b2b12d27f34b220445eed833ade612b038ae1599ea9f8b8c3803

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-19T08:49:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6cecea6569d483119641acafb05b61006f54272676c263ea1198cdb1974d22db"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}