Pith Number

pith:G2Z5DFTH

pith:2018:G2Z5DFTHBWXIM4ZWDHLIEM3XN7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Finding the bandit in a graph: Sequential search-and-stop

Michal Valko, Pierre Perrault, Vianney Perchet

arxiv:1806.02282 v3 · 2018-06-06 · stat.ML · cs.LG · math.OC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{G2Z5DFTHBWXIM4ZWDHLIEM3XN7}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-17T23:48:06.668038Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

36b3d196670dae86733619d68233776fdebdb5679b92410feabda955e8dba7a3

Aliases

arxiv: 1806.02282 · arxiv_version: 1806.02282v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1806.02282 · pith_short_12: G2Z5DFTHBWXI · pith_short_16: G2Z5DFTHBWXIM4ZW · pith_short_8: G2Z5DFTH

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/G2Z5DFTHBWXIM4ZWDHLIEM3XN7 \
  | 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: 36b3d196670dae86733619d68233776fdebdb5679b92410feabda955e8dba7a3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5dbc6c9bda41d7bf3085341b57d394b234830c6e330f1485a11b85cb74791662",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "math.OC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2018-06-06T16:22:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "946a06e5d8dcf34bf21532dea7f142c988c20dee5f7cf8da84ede382e7e2663f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1806.02282",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}