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pith:BOFFCX3N

pith:2016:BOFFCX3NJ2FJKCPEOE2KTOW7KQ

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Why is Posterior Sampling Better than Optimism for Reinforcement Learning?

Benjamin Van Roy, Ian Osband

arxiv:1607.00215 v3 · 2016-07-01 · stat.ML · cs.AI · cs.LG

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:42:32.742040Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0b8a515f6d4e8a9509e47134a9badf54162df1d716d0635d439266a90daf4a96

Aliases

arxiv: 1607.00215 · arxiv_version: 1607.00215v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1607.00215 · pith_short_12: BOFFCX3NJ2FJ · pith_short_16: BOFFCX3NJ2FJKCPE · pith_short_8: BOFFCX3N

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BOFFCX3NJ2FJKCPEOE2KTOW7KQ \
  | 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: 0b8a515f6d4e8a9509e47134a9badf54162df1d716d0635d439266a90daf4a96

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2016-07-01T11:58:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "72a8e3d460cca5919721760020a62f3f01e1119ce938359a9ebbe70080411613"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1607.00215",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}