Pith Number

pith:CZ3EJYCH

pith:2015:CZ3EJYCHYPDTYHVOGRL3TSQTTL

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On the Optimal Sample Complexity for Best Arm Identification

Jian Li, Lijie Chen

arxiv:1511.03774 v3 · 2015-11-12 · cs.LG · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CZ3EJYCHYPDTYHVOGRL3TSQTTL}

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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	2026-05-18T01:08:20.662882Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

167644e047c3c73c1eae3457b9ca139ae193ec8e71520f3772304008ff3232b3

Aliases

arxiv: 1511.03774 · arxiv_version: 1511.03774v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1511.03774 · pith_short_12: CZ3EJYCHYPDT · pith_short_16: CZ3EJYCHYPDTYHVO · pith_short_8: CZ3EJYCH

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/CZ3EJYCHYPDTYHVOGRL3TSQTTL \
  | 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: 167644e047c3c73c1eae3457b9ca139ae193ec8e71520f3772304008ff3232b3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3d48f6bbebe2886481564182c6ebd43e03708e124eb3b319903f9162daec34bb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2015-11-12T04:49:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7c217fabd42f35d79cb69754d799a3ee9b691ca5ed66553ea795c5cf72d092a3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1511.03774",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}