Pith Number

pith:QDZRGBVK

pith:2011:QDZRGBVKW3F4Z4UC2DG5RFCAVO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Optimal discovery with probabilistic expert advice

Aur\'elien Garivier, Damien Ernst, S\'ebastien Bubeck

arxiv:1110.5447 v1 · 2011-10-25 · math.OC · cs.LG

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QDZRGBVKW3F4Z4UC2DG5RFCAVO}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T04:10:22.873575Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

80f31306aab6cbccf282d0cdd89440abbd3bf249d280e70772389616a64ed776

Aliases

arxiv: 1110.5447 · arxiv_version: 1110.5447v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1110.5447 · pith_short_12: QDZRGBVKW3F4 · pith_short_16: QDZRGBVKW3F4Z4UC · pith_short_8: QDZRGBVK

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/QDZRGBVKW3F4Z4UC2DG5RFCAVO \
  | 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: 80f31306aab6cbccf282d0cdd89440abbd3bf249d280e70772389616a64ed776

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "887dda6a26b729b2aa615879ff492d8e7a9d834ea6fb5016127d42d0e3f54d97",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2011-10-25T09:01:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "470d9a52d9a2644ea4390c88b236ea4407180a5d89ec5c23621c9bb4bb1f44e8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1110.5447",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}