Pith Number

pith:4OOBHC7T

pith:2017:4OOBHC7TEVSENAM4GFY6DKHTES

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An Analysis of the Value of Information when Exploring Stochastic, Discrete Multi-Armed Bandits

Isaac J. Sledge, Jose C. Principe

arxiv:1710.02869 v2 · 2017-10-08 · cs.AI · cs.LG · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4OOBHC7TEVSENAM4GFY6DKHTES}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:22:05.608483Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e39c138bf3256446819c3171e1a8f324a3b5b407ae144f397fc0cb855d789d8e

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.02869 · arxiv_version: 1710.02869v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.02869 · pith_short_12: 4OOBHC7TEVSE · pith_short_16: 4OOBHC7TEVSENAM4 · pith_short_8: 4OOBHC7T

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4OOBHC7TEVSENAM4GFY6DKHTES \
  | 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: e39c138bf3256446819c3171e1a8f324a3b5b407ae144f397fc0cb855d789d8e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "07d57ce4522facc720734e2f21a0756c4e41a31375735af47260d26d6afffc64",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-08T18:48:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0c8aa39bb3c14cf25b9ed7790f09e02e9dc3292b8f61e18b32ead1a12d6ddf8c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.02869",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}