Pith Number

pith:VHJVUXK4

pith:2017:VHJVUXK4GARADW2MA2KWREC4U5

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Nearly Instance Optimal Sample Complexity Bounds for Top-k Arm Selection

Jian Li, Lijie Chen, Mingda Qiao

arxiv:1702.03605 v1 · 2017-02-13 · cs.LG · cs.DS · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VHJVUXK4GARADW2MA2KWREC4U5}

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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	2026-05-18T00:50:51.611578Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a9d35a5d5c302201db4c069568905ca764d7f7e3775011b0c02e99b4b238c059

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.03605 · arxiv_version: 1702.03605v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.03605 · pith_short_12: VHJVUXK4GARA · pith_short_16: VHJVUXK4GARADW2M · pith_short_8: VHJVUXK4

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/VHJVUXK4GARADW2MA2KWREC4U5 \
  | 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: a9d35a5d5c302201db4c069568905ca764d7f7e3775011b0c02e99b4b238c059

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5d18fc839411f7f6102de3021d06e16609d885a1f46505a469aa8f0558a4867c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-13T01:31:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b375c224a4e18ee88fd3ac5fc40ba3ee58cd4db78a1b4b6ba94627ad9e8d790a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.03605",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}