Pith Number

pith:VYBGI5A6

pith:2016:VYBGI5A6V2E5FJSDA4CHADXMPK

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Optimal Best Arm Identification with Fixed Confidence

Aur\'elien Garivier (IMT), Emilie Kaufmann (CRIStAL, SEQUEL)

arxiv:1602.04589 v2 · 2016-02-15 · math.ST · cs.LG · stat.ML · stat.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VYBGI5A6V2E5FJSDA4CHADXMPK}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:13:09.417902Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ae0264741eae89d2a6430704700eec7a9ad7f52383623383974197267af26330

Aliases

arxiv: 1602.04589 · arxiv_version: 1602.04589v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1602.04589 · pith_short_12: VYBGI5A6V2E5 · pith_short_16: VYBGI5A6V2E5FJSD · pith_short_8: VYBGI5A6

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/VYBGI5A6V2E5FJSDA4CHADXMPK \
  | 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: ae0264741eae89d2a6430704700eec7a9ad7f52383623383974197267af26330

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4b515a057aeb489753b936d8b4f915c7a29c4b98c7ebc2ba8a3e44d400de7b2b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "stat.ML",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2016-02-15T08:25:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "852b7d4d5f2e45886ce65e5384a4a84fc7cd1cbeb27067d6640bf8aebbe94e4c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1602.04589",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}