Pith Number

pith:BKNDK4HR

pith:2019:BKNDK4HR6K3EOTPHPMFDIIUJPK

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Gaussian One-Armed Bandit and Optimization of Batch Data Processing

Alexander Kolnogorov

arxiv:1901.08845 v1 · 2019-01-25 · math.ST · stat.TH

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\pithnumber{BKNDK4HR6K3EOTPHPMFDIIUJPK}

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:55:32.922657Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0a9a3570f1f2b6474de77b0a3422897aaf800a0381f6350b5ef9b796348f5d79

Aliases

arxiv: 1901.08845 · arxiv_version: 1901.08845v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1901.08845 · pith_short_12: BKNDK4HR6K3E · pith_short_16: BKNDK4HR6K3EOTPH · pith_short_8: BKNDK4HR

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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/BKNDK4HR6K3EOTPHPMFDIIUJPK \
  | 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: 0a9a3570f1f2b6474de77b0a3422897aaf800a0381f6350b5ef9b796348f5d79

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "69051214edb127f5ba37c1a37dc9ca6165b65df410d313d26d5a36ac79624dff",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2019-01-25T11:57:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4bc891d239049dae088f4e66caf55b411b8e0cdb6b29c4d7bd8eb08707865541"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1901.08845",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}