Pith Number

pith:FB5GOSF7

pith:2026:FB5GOSF7KQHXINAPRE7NJPGWYR

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On the Benefits of Free Exploration for Regret Minimization in Multi-Armed Bandits

Vincent Y. F. Tan, Yunlong Hou, Zixin Zhong

arxiv:2605.25789 v1 · 2026-05-25 · cs.LG · cs.AI · cs.IT · math.IT · stat.ML

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\pithnumber{FB5GOSF7KQHXINAPRE7NJPGWYR}

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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	2026-05-26T02:05:11.692717Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

287a6748bf540f74340f893ed4bcd6c47c3398b2c9820f3b0176b619590c3baf

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.25789 · arxiv_version: 2605.25789v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.25789 · pith_short_12: FB5GOSF7KQHX · pith_short_16: FB5GOSF7KQHXINAP · pith_short_8: FB5GOSF7

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/FB5GOSF7KQHXINAPRE7NJPGWYR \
  | 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: 287a6748bf540f74340f893ed4bcd6c47c3398b2c9820f3b0176b619590c3baf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "feabbc4c9dd6081556fb5567412f4f23a2680ad56245e364957828b79bd4c2c1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-25T12:36:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "911ae732051e2b7cbced96600792aa84494d3bc1daf14faa2b0e27bb87c268fb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.25789",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}