Pith Number

pith:QXNAVSVN

pith:2019:QXNAVSVN6WM5ZYJXJYIMWP7SSY

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Note on Thompson sampling for large decision problems

Eric B. Laber, Krishna Pacifici, Nick J. Meyer, Tao Hu, Zhen Li

arxiv:1905.04735 v1 · 2019-05-12 · stat.ME

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\pithnumber{QXNAVSVN6WM5ZYJXJYIMWP7SSY}

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:46:23.725587Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

85da0acaadf599dce1374e10cb3ff29632fd12b422320115b097f21dd891b699

Aliases

arxiv: 1905.04735 · arxiv_version: 1905.04735v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1905.04735 · pith_short_12: QXNAVSVN6WM5 · pith_short_16: QXNAVSVN6WM5ZYJX · pith_short_8: QXNAVSVN

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QXNAVSVN6WM5ZYJXJYIMWP7SSY \
  | 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: 85da0acaadf599dce1374e10cb3ff29632fd12b422320115b097f21dd891b699

Canonical record JSON

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    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2019-05-12T15:29:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "03aa7f509f3aeabd013823abfb949d7b10b79c72744c4a3956069ad9abe998d7"
  },
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