Pith Number

pith:QF4RPZP3

pith:2025:QF4RPZP3CFY6LCTW7ZIDV33RI4

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An Improved Algorithm for Adversarial Linear Contextual Bandits via Reduction

Chen-Yu Wei, Jack Mayo, Julia Olkhovskaya, Tim van Erven

arxiv:2508.11931 v3 · 2025-08-16 · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QF4RPZP3CFY6LCTW7ZIDV33RI4}

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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	2026-06-02T03:04:33.839809Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

817917e5fb1171e58a76fe503aef71471c4770473e4e60686e2ac8998a6a5ba0

Aliases

arxiv: 2508.11931 · arxiv_version: 2508.11931v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2508.11931 · pith_short_12: QF4RPZP3CFY6 · pith_short_16: QF4RPZP3CFY6LCTW · pith_short_8: QF4RPZP3

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QF4RPZP3CFY6LCTW7ZIDV33RI4 \
  | 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: 817917e5fb1171e58a76fe503aef71471c4770473e4e60686e2ac8998a6a5ba0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "59d50e38c67b9414e2d980c767da156b74676eda295b8ecc2fbd6c8437983deb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2025-08-16T06:25:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a91b39cddc2e77aa801ecf3d4aa54e40bc99e16c540738ca766febeedda03015"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2508.11931",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}