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pith:BL5QJ7DD

pith:2024:BL5QJ7DDRWAV7ZHN3P3SRXNSYQ

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An Upper Confidence Bound Approach to Estimating the Maximum Mean

Liu Guangwu, Shi Wen, Zhang Kun

arxiv:2408.04179 v1 · 2024-08-08 · math.ST · cs.LG · stat.ML · stat.TH

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First computed	2026-07-05T08:53:29.293249Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0afb04fc638d815fe4eddbf728ddb2c40b18adab67b54cb97be5e24e49973ded

Aliases

arxiv: 2408.04179 · arxiv_version: 2408.04179v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2408.04179 · pith_short_12: BL5QJ7DDRWAV · pith_short_16: BL5QJ7DDRWAV7ZHN · pith_short_8: BL5QJ7DD

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BL5QJ7DDRWAV7ZHN3P3SRXNSYQ \
  | 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: 0afb04fc638d815fe4eddbf728ddb2c40b18adab67b54cb97be5e24e49973ded

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "65dc522a4b95c01321abe540e63c74b85392b1fd811e76a650243f9f6cd8cb6d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "stat.ML",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2024-08-08T02:53:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8b467a9f54c6a82bfb904ee14060c9dc91fc3a44030d0477426783afec252447"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2408.04179",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}