Pith Number

pith:QK3PO3DO

pith:2019:QK3PO3DOF2VYDNJGOKN37ZV5D7

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Practical Calculation of Gittins Indices for Multi-armed Bandits

James Edwards

arxiv:1909.05075 v1 · 2019-09-11 · stat.ML · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QK3PO3DOF2VYDNJGOKN37ZV5D7}

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First computed	2026-07-05T00:04:02.797121Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

82b6f76c6e2eab81b526729bbfe6bd1fc994703ad48e21da88ed5f3c69870a88

Aliases

arxiv: 1909.05075 · arxiv_version: 1909.05075v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1909.05075 · pith_short_12: QK3PO3DOF2VY · pith_short_16: QK3PO3DOF2VYDNJG · pith_short_8: QK3PO3DO

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QK3PO3DOF2VYDNJGOKN37ZV5D7 \
  | 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: 82b6f76c6e2eab81b526729bbfe6bd1fc994703ad48e21da88ed5f3c69870a88

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dd53f0ed616eb5ba348bd00253b1ff0137779bcd5dc1352ba782da2f6983a348",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2019-09-11T14:24:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b464a3e83ee48dc016788f39436d8bc742f351ca0eaa5648fb39f9111033de0a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1909.05075",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}