Pith Number

pith:7RS33G7L

pith:2014:7RS33G7LMS4YFCQ4CBQQRIA25V

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An Information-Theoretic Analysis of Thompson Sampling

Benjamin Van Roy, Daniel Russo

arxiv:1403.5341 v2 · 2014-03-21 · cs.LG

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:55:53.496792Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fc65bd9beb64b9828a1c106108a01aed5df1e649fe8f9d516cfeb691213c6b62

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arxiv: 1403.5341 · arxiv_version: 1403.5341v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1403.5341 · pith_short_12: 7RS33G7LMS4Y · pith_short_16: 7RS33G7LMS4YFCQ4 · pith_short_8: 7RS33G7L

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/7RS33G7LMS4YFCQ4CBQQRIA25V \
  | 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: fc65bd9beb64b9828a1c106108a01aed5df1e649fe8f9d516cfeb691213c6b62

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "842619b3e83ccd952e74868413f68392f7f8081d458ec36587812865076ce5be",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2014-03-21T01:42:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d29d931244e2c8b03dd9148eefe8c9686e84d43c23a1fafe5fc82974be83eb70"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1403.5341",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}