Pith Number

pith:NB52JLPZ

pith:2018:NB52JLPZSPTRQ2WRHYO4GXJYKL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Bandit Learning with Positive Externalities

Jose Blanchet, Ramesh Johari, Virag Shah

arxiv:1802.05693 v5 · 2018-02-15 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NB52JLPZSPTRQ2WRHYO4GXJYKL}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-17T23:51:54.756287Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

687ba4adf993e7186ad13e1dc35d3852fe4e89a6328a972287c5a54b69f4af88

Aliases

arxiv: 1802.05693 · arxiv_version: 1802.05693v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1802.05693 · pith_short_12: NB52JLPZSPTR · pith_short_16: NB52JLPZSPTRQ2WR · pith_short_8: NB52JLPZ

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NB52JLPZSPTRQ2WRHYO4GXJYKL \
  | 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: 687ba4adf993e7186ad13e1dc35d3852fe4e89a6328a972287c5a54b69f4af88

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5e255268a07f2dbfc0056c47cc5bbe86dd9527b44f399f3695a848accce0fa4f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2018-02-15T18:22:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bd0e0927b9cb9d904721e1f0b60029abba446c8165e91821b3acdb98d774545c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1802.05693",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}