Pith Number

pith:LXNMCDVN

pith:2015:LXNMCDVNU7A6K5A4GCTG4H3MBQ

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The Max $K$-Armed Bandit: PAC Lower Bounds and Efficient Algorithms

Nahum Shimkin, Yahel David

arxiv:1512.07650 v1 · 2015-12-23 · stat.ML · cs.AI · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LXNMCDVNU7A6K5A4GCTG4H3MBQ}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:23:48.894247Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5ddac10eada7c1e5741c30a66e1f6c0c123c58669aea5f131d43ef746d7e999a

Aliases

arxiv: 1512.07650 · arxiv_version: 1512.07650v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1512.07650 · pith_short_12: LXNMCDVNU7A6 · pith_short_16: LXNMCDVNU7A6K5A4 · pith_short_8: LXNMCDVN

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LXNMCDVNU7A6K5A4GCTG4H3MBQ \
  | 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: 5ddac10eada7c1e5741c30a66e1f6c0c123c58669aea5f131d43ef746d7e999a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2a5277071bd8e49166dc6b44550ce47a0d34540cc86e62c77894b185282884ac",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2015-12-23T22:11:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "19e34f4104b9e39fa488054ec3c77b3d02fa32e44804fa1069ac021351263cd9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1512.07650",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}