Pith Number

pith:5RY4QOBY

pith:2017:5RY4QOBYEFESOP3UW6SPO6R6F4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Value Directed Exploration in Multi-Armed Bandits with Structured Priors

Bence Cserna, Marek Petrik, Reazul Hasan Russel, Wheeler Ruml

arxiv:1704.03926 v2 · 2017-04-12 · cs.LG · cs.AI · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5RY4QOBYEFESOP3UW6SPO6R6F4}

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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	2026-05-18T00:44:18.629868Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ec71c838382149273f74b7a4f77a3e2f1000624b17f055a7d5ef2ff3ab35211c

Aliases

arxiv: 1704.03926 · arxiv_version: 1704.03926v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1704.03926 · pith_short_12: 5RY4QOBYEFES · pith_short_16: 5RY4QOBYEFESOP3U · pith_short_8: 5RY4QOBY

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/5RY4QOBYEFESOP3UW6SPO6R6F4 \
  | 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: ec71c838382149273f74b7a4f77a3e2f1000624b17f055a7d5ef2ff3ab35211c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "235e7a9d3aa141189985ca5b44aeec68de4525cbaa682fc6ff412eb5d03c319d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2017-04-12T20:46:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9814c7432f27a57a827c40042ffab5ba62b9720e92348c85a20264b6b77f13b7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1704.03926",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}