Pith Number

pith:BA4A44UP

pith:2021:BA4A44UPJGT5XPEESJ6W37ZMZP

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Top $K$ Ranking for Multi-Armed Bandit with Noisy Evaluations

Alessandro Lazaric, Evrard Garcelon, Matteo Pirotta, Vashist Avadhanula

arxiv:2112.06517 v4 · 2021-12-13 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BA4A44UPJGT5XPEESJ6W37ZMZP}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-07-05T04:13:47.646075Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

08380e728f49a7dbbc84927d6dff2ccbf78a5b98cfb2337d2519f06674d6bb96

Aliases

arxiv: 2112.06517 · arxiv_version: 2112.06517v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2112.06517 · pith_short_12: BA4A44UPJGT5 · pith_short_16: BA4A44UPJGT5XPEE · pith_short_8: BA4A44UP

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/BA4A44UPJGT5XPEESJ6W37ZMZP \
  | 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: 08380e728f49a7dbbc84927d6dff2ccbf78a5b98cfb2337d2519f06674d6bb96

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5a9de1d987b63e67422357b070412596750873b9c2717b3d4ec735f1c2a1dd41",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2021-12-13T09:48:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e7334fcc45409b426e62ef1607594c969a8635ccde3f585374d3c4b30585289a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2112.06517",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}