Pith Number

pith:KBERR6JH

pith:2026:KBERR6JH2OLYSOJUQIXIRXRHEX

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When Offline Evaluation Misleads: A Diagnostic Protocol for Reward and Policy Selection in Delayed-Feedback Contextual Bandits

Sang Su Lee, Shishir Dash, Vijay Raghavan, Vineeth Loganathan

arxiv:2608.11560 v1 · 2026-08-12 · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KBERR6JH2OLYSOJUQIXIRXRHEX}

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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	2026-08-13T00:22:11.328269Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

504918f927d397893934822e88de2725fe2d43d05e13ff90e10ada4a52e0af37

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.11560 · arxiv_version: 2608.11560v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.11560 · pith_short_12: KBERR6JH2OLY · pith_short_16: KBERR6JH2OLYSOJU · pith_short_8: KBERR6JH

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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/KBERR6JH2OLYSOJUQIXIRXRHEX \
  | 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: 504918f927d397893934822e88de2725fe2d43d05e13ff90e10ada4a52e0af37

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6fa933b02e6dce4cb177ba8dff14d7a68272d30f841b95f98011b38390000508",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-12T01:53:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a661e1f485d255b9653a50c4687e2cfd45f5f90b7fd7ca5292c61b10ed212725"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.11560",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}