Pith Number

pith:5DEHJ3YF

pith:2026:5DEHJ3YFJCWY72T42J6QBOWTXK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Fundamental Limitations of Fixed-Budget Best-Arm Identification

Motti Goldberger

arxiv:2607.11635 v1 · 2026-07-13 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5DEHJ3YFJCWY72T42J6QBOWTXK}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-14T02:22:15.998231Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e8c874ef0548ad8fea7cd27d00bad3ba9e62949d9d86296ffbc6e94ef18f573c

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.11635 · arxiv_version: 2607.11635v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.11635 · pith_short_12: 5DEHJ3YFJCWY · pith_short_16: 5DEHJ3YFJCWY72T4 · pith_short_8: 5DEHJ3YF

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/5DEHJ3YFJCWY72T42J6QBOWTXK \
  | 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: e8c874ef0548ad8fea7cd27d00bad3ba9e62949d9d86296ffbc6e94ef18f573c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bc03cd70486d067a4a5125a55739e6551a91d5769cecad6f2e1792ce78123f6d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-13T14:50:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f2ea0d72439b6eae90468692b49c8b0e8919ab655e6c17f51b798f3d885782ac"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.11635",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}