Pith Number

pith:BLELLBMW

pith:2016:BLELLBMWJZ3ZUVUJQBELIWXGZE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Optimal and Adaptive Off-policy Evaluation in Contextual Bandits

Alekh Agarwal, Miroslav Dudik, Yu-Xiang Wang

arxiv:1612.01205 v2 · 2016-12-04 · stat.ML · cs.LG

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BLELLBMWJZ3ZUVUJQBELIWXGZE}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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.

Cited by

1 paper in Pith

Exploitation Over Exploration: Unmasking the Bias in Linear Bandit Recommender Offline Evaluation

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:30:50.798172Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0ac8b585964e779a56898048b45ae6c91603387c9560fe240f6543aaf738c996

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.01205 · arxiv_version: 1612.01205v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.01205 · pith_short_12: BLELLBMWJZ3Z · pith_short_16: BLELLBMWJZ3ZUVUJ · pith_short_8: BLELLBMW

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/BLELLBMWJZ3ZUVUJQBELIWXGZE \
  | 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: 0ac8b585964e779a56898048b45ae6c91603387c9560fe240f6543aaf738c996

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d87f660e9566b4c40565ab946a716a86d95774843d45480b040b628f940bf6e3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2016-12-04T23:24:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "25a4cc27aae761f2760c2d3356aa5747d3bc4f85d9daa45b84d850c0f2a62def"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.01205",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}