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pith:4PRQQDNL

pith:2011:4PRQQDNLFSREWUQIDLVGL2RQYX

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Analysis of Thompson Sampling for the multi-armed bandit problem

Navin Goyal, Shipra Agrawal

arxiv:1111.1797 v3 · 2011-11-08 · cs.LG · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4PRQQDNLFSREWUQIDLVGL2RQYX}

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First computed	2026-05-18T03:58:24.477581Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e3e3080dab2ca24b52081aea65ea30c5e41c72dd9b63bf14f0ced8fd2289b496

Aliases

arxiv: 1111.1797 · arxiv_version: 1111.1797v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1111.1797 · pith_short_12: 4PRQQDNLFSRE · pith_short_16: 4PRQQDNLFSREWUQI · pith_short_8: 4PRQQDNL

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4PRQQDNLFSREWUQIDLVGL2RQYX \
  | 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: e3e3080dab2ca24b52081aea65ea30c5e41c72dd9b63bf14f0ced8fd2289b496

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "172697f5318053c330355dfac7b23709428fa9d73e9c55d7490798353dc8c762",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2011-11-08T04:27:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "65971c3b604125890278d429800ace6255cdaaf1bc5dba6412f27979824c1b48"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1111.1797",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}