Pith Number

pith:BTIAREX5

pith:2015:BTIAREX5LPA5G3VVWPJGFW2V3G

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Selecting the best system and multi-armed bandits

Peter Glynn, Sandeep Juneja

arxiv:1507.04564 v3 · 2015-07-16 · math.PR · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BTIAREX5LPA5G3VVWPJGFW2V3G}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:06:12.785531Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0cd00892fd5bc1d36eb5b3d262db55d9bdb841b164b64f5b0bd24de66e4e671c

Aliases

arxiv: 1507.04564 · arxiv_version: 1507.04564v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1507.04564 · pith_short_12: BTIAREX5LPA5 · pith_short_16: BTIAREX5LPA5G3VV · pith_short_8: BTIAREX5

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BTIAREX5LPA5G3VVWPJGFW2V3G \
  | 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: 0cd00892fd5bc1d36eb5b3d262db55d9bdb841b164b64f5b0bd24de66e4e671c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9711b585798e91e3a4ca0f13ba3147d28e82eb9087153b80b5ab6c354006cda0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2015-07-16T13:33:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2a4267c02d8c33d1a4ed7bdb6199a232db9cb1bed36610c77eb9733470836ae6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1507.04564",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}