Pith Number

pith:C5ALMRGC

pith:2025:C5ALMRGCDXEWPWTJNDWLEXYHNH

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When and why randomised exploration works (in linear bandits)

Ciara Pike-Burke, David Janz, Marc Abeille

arxiv:2502.08870 v2 · 2025-02-13 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{C5ALMRGCDXEWPWTJNDWLEXYHNH}

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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.

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First computed	2026-06-04T01:09:37.261231Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1740b644c21dc967da6968ecb25f0769e3be5b835f65f7e1cdd43534cf5f6871

Aliases

arxiv: 2502.08870 · arxiv_version: 2502.08870v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2502.08870 · pith_short_12: C5ALMRGCDXEW · pith_short_16: C5ALMRGCDXEWPWTJ · pith_short_8: C5ALMRGC

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/C5ALMRGCDXEWPWTJNDWLEXYHNH \
  | 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: 1740b644c21dc967da6968ecb25f0769e3be5b835f65f7e1cdd43534cf5f6871

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2025-02-13T00:49:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1a4b6a38b087459539c5e87b6a2260d760889e32eb3efedb6567e18d916b7061"
  },
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  "source": {
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  }
}