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pith:NYR3P2BS

pith:2013:NYR3P2BSAP4MGA376Y46ZXZTLF

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On Finding the Largest Mean Among Many

Kevin Jamieson, Matthew Malloy, Robert Nowak, Sebastien Bubeck

arxiv:1306.3917 v1 · 2013-06-17 · stat.ML · cs.LG

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First computed	2026-05-18T03:20:46.047739Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

6e23b7e83203f8c3037ff639ecdf3359551ffe10155e9e8e56089bd2163660a0

Aliases

arxiv: 1306.3917 · arxiv_version: 1306.3917v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1306.3917 · pith_short_12: NYR3P2BSAP4M · pith_short_16: NYR3P2BSAP4MGA37 · pith_short_8: NYR3P2BS

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NYR3P2BSAP4MGA376Y46ZXZTLF \
  | 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: 6e23b7e83203f8c3037ff639ecdf3359551ffe10155e9e8e56089bd2163660a0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "219e64c13ed4691c6223de1d65360f90fddd2a5c1143ae635f630eb53dbe0769",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2013-06-17T16:24:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "60ccd3c8ca7cd38d91dff150bc3d11e23f420a3cd959292b5f06c72e8f52bf17"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1306.3917",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}