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pith:KVS3MURX

pith:2016:KVS3MURXTYFFSZGYIP44HLJ4TF

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On Sequential Elimination Algorithms for Best-Arm Identification in Multi-Armed Bandits

Mohammad Noshad, Shahin Shahrampour, Vahid Tarokh

arxiv:1609.02606 v2 · 2016-09-08 · stat.ML · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KVS3MURXTYFFSZGYIP44HLJ4TF}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:39:02.177935Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5565b652379e0a5964d843f9c3ad3c99470e724bf04380bef5d9bcf382f042e1

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.02606 · arxiv_version: 1609.02606v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.02606 · pith_short_12: KVS3MURXTYFF · pith_short_16: KVS3MURXTYFFSZGY · pith_short_8: KVS3MURX

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/KVS3MURXTYFFSZGYIP44HLJ4TF \
  | 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: 5565b652379e0a5964d843f9c3ad3c99470e724bf04380bef5d9bcf382f042e1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3d01a6c843765585aadccad53b8f7170801736e319cba0fcd713714b0909fdaf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-08T21:46:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "17d46ef90ee8e5fa6d9793f26da83055f8fe1231781eb8c06f0611bfd7a70314"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.02606",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}