Pith Number

pith:FNR544YA

pith:2015:FNR544YA4JYMEBUDTFOUU33L7Q

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The Max $K$-Armed Bandit: A PAC Lower Bound and tighter Algorithms

Nahum Shimkin, Yahel David

arxiv:1508.05608 v1 · 2015-08-23 · stat.ML · cs.AI · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FNR544YA4JYMEBUDTFOUU33L7Q}

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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	2026-05-18T01:34:52.104574Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2b63de7300e270c20683995d4a6f6bfc0a4d013b499805e57f97eb17c6a56cf1

Aliases

arxiv: 1508.05608 · arxiv_version: 1508.05608v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1508.05608 · pith_short_12: FNR544YA4JYM · pith_short_16: FNR544YA4JYMEBUD · pith_short_8: FNR544YA

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/FNR544YA4JYMEBUDTFOUU33L7Q \
  | 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: 2b63de7300e270c20683995d4a6f6bfc0a4d013b499805e57f97eb17c6a56cf1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9d7707defbb759d34f82188184adb81cc648452baf7db1967e6277f9eb04b7fb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2015-08-23T13:38:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "87c241c2d87f4a7e9a5aa60bfb9c67d7383f18a38b8ab5239696d41fff79bd3d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1508.05608",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}