Pith Number

pith:BFUOTESD

pith:2016:BFUOTESD74MWE7VHYF2WEZU24F

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Towards Instance Optimal Bounds for Best Arm Identification

Jian Li, Lijie Chen, Mingda Qiao

arxiv:1608.06031 v2 · 2016-08-22 · cs.LG · cs.DS · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BFUOTESD74MWE7VHYF2WEZU24F}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:43:48.060003Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0968e99243ff19627ea7c17562669ae170bbc8235243e207018fe2a3e5f09377

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.06031 · arxiv_version: 1608.06031v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.06031 · pith_short_12: BFUOTESD74MW · pith_short_16: BFUOTESD74MWE7VH · pith_short_8: BFUOTESD

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BFUOTESD74MWE7VHYF2WEZU24F \
  | 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: 0968e99243ff19627ea7c17562669ae170bbc8235243e207018fe2a3e5f09377

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4aeefe2cf1a23b50f652f52151dc3d27c5d50b7c4275edd928cd16cc4ed80854",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-22T02:05:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "38a171ce3f17d894a31b78de3d131d17d9ecf86746b8841ecd9191437fb63ee3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1608.06031",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}