Pith Number

pith:O2JSSKOL

pith:2017:O2JSSKOLQ452SJ2BVLIBBBVDRZ

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Ranking and Selection as Stochastic Control

Chun-Hung Chen, Edwin K. P. Chong, Michael C. Fu, Yijie Peng

arxiv:1710.02619 v1 · 2017-10-07 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{O2JSSKOLQ452SJ2BVLIBBBVDRZ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:33:29.315485Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

76932929cb873ba92741aad01086a38e4e0c317ea298a0783a45ad1f108b7cfc

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.02619 · arxiv_version: 1710.02619v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.02619 · pith_short_12: O2JSSKOLQ452 · pith_short_16: O2JSSKOLQ452SJ2B · pith_short_8: O2JSSKOL

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/O2JSSKOLQ452SJ2BVLIBBBVDRZ \
  | 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: 76932929cb873ba92741aad01086a38e4e0c317ea298a0783a45ad1f108b7cfc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6d25ac65c1ff11c3ff5a95eccbd7a5da7a5b996bcd9f52c8605fd420bef89273",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-07T01:53:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bf2672ac54b1e2986876fa4377da617d6c1f345623b0b7c3baf57b049608dd1d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.02619",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}