Pith Number

pith:J6E6GBXI

pith:2026:J6E6GBXIXJ2ROSQY7UXO5XQRRZ

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Fixed Budget is No Harder Than Fixed Confidence in Best-Arm Identification up to Logarithmic Factors

Anton Daitche, Houssam Nassif, Kapilan Balagopalan, Kwang-Sung Jun, Tuan Nguyen, Yao Zhao, Yinan Li

arxiv:2602.03972 v3 · 2026-02-03 · stat.ML · cs.AI · cs.LG

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\pithnumber{J6E6GBXIXJ2ROSQY7UXO5XQRRZ}

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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	2026-06-02T01:03:15.612975Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4f89e306e8ba75174a18fd2eeede118e5154f23bc27b4e49b789743236696f66

Aliases

arxiv: 2602.03972 · arxiv_version: 2602.03972v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2602.03972 · pith_short_12: J6E6GBXIXJ2R · pith_short_16: J6E6GBXIXJ2ROSQY · pith_short_8: J6E6GBXI

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/J6E6GBXIXJ2ROSQY7UXO5XQRRZ \
  | 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: 4f89e306e8ba75174a18fd2eeede118e5154f23bc27b4e49b789743236696f66

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "51b4d174b997d939e8e26f4ab93932248e3f8674d4d8501033763608d3a50828",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2026-02-03T19:49:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cac4ce38c6bb6eda8e497c484161e051360b3a3ec983b8bd228008ce2a49e177"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2602.03972",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}