Pith Number

pith:BTKRYICW

pith:2018:BTKRYICWFRN2QZOSYVZ3F7FPST

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Balanced Linear Contextual Bandits

Guido Imbens, Maria Dimakopoulou, Susan Athey, Zhengyuan Zhou

arxiv:1812.06227 v1 · 2018-12-15 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BTKRYICWFRN2QZOSYVZ3F7FPST}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-17T23:58:12.811473Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0cd51c20562c5ba865d2c573b2fcaf94cc1489b15725900b3620b87ae3354e2b

Aliases

arxiv: 1812.06227 · arxiv_version: 1812.06227v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1812.06227 · pith_short_12: BTKRYICWFRN2 · pith_short_16: BTKRYICWFRN2QZOS · pith_short_8: BTKRYICW

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/BTKRYICWFRN2QZOSYVZ3F7FPST \
  | 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: 0cd51c20562c5ba865d2c573b2fcaf94cc1489b15725900b3620b87ae3354e2b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3a39ae3911e244ecc03d41b69593105c55aac12b30a31dba4ef9379cc1b0dcbc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2018-12-15T03:06:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fe7dd58e4620f3e7c72d85079dff451c5a22a704bbd7f34259e775ae450eb7d2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1812.06227",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}