Pith Number

pith:MKIMEQFV

pith:2015:MKIMEQFVSV5462QB3BMDTAYDBG

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Normal Bandits of Unknown Means and Variances: Asymptotic Optimality, Finite Horizon Regret Bounds, and a Solution to an Open Problem

Junya Honda, Michael N. Katehakis, Wesley Cowan

arxiv:1504.05823 v2 · 2015-04-22 · stat.ML · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MKIMEQFVSV5462QB3BMDTAYDBG}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:58:26.694980Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6290c240b5957bcf6a01d85839830309ba4917f25664ac6278b810ec8b9bbffc

Aliases

arxiv: 1504.05823 · arxiv_version: 1504.05823v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1504.05823 · pith_short_12: MKIMEQFVSV54 · pith_short_16: MKIMEQFVSV5462QB · pith_short_8: MKIMEQFV

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MKIMEQFVSV5462QB3BMDTAYDBG \
  | 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: 6290c240b5957bcf6a01d85839830309ba4917f25664ac6278b810ec8b9bbffc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9f4e076d54981f3eca49cbdd1954d2731e43e2241504327606b110e92841ff77",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2015-04-22T14:30:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "28a939b9a3fec5d05a295cd708702bce5427f3162ec85626f46e2b3a2ebda19a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1504.05823",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}