Pith Number

pith:X6SAPTKJ

pith:2014:X6SAPTKJEN5IZFHW7GZ37A6FRF

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A Markov Decision Process Analysis of the Cold Start Problem in Bayesian Information Filtering

Peter I. Frazier, Xiaoting Zhao

arxiv:1410.7852 v1 · 2014-10-29 · cs.LG · cs.IR · math.OC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{X6SAPTKJEN5IZFHW7GZ37A6FRF}

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:39:08.050023Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bfa407cd49237a8c94f6f9b3bf83c58979563be3bf56f866a76f9eb0af67fde4

Aliases

arxiv: 1410.7852 · arxiv_version: 1410.7852v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1410.7852 · pith_short_12: X6SAPTKJEN5I · pith_short_16: X6SAPTKJEN5IZFHW · pith_short_8: X6SAPTKJ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/X6SAPTKJEN5IZFHW7GZ37A6FRF \
  | 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: bfa407cd49237a8c94f6f9b3bf83c58979563be3bf56f866a76f9eb0af67fde4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f80c1b13d7825332979e37d2d7617e5c0df763bb1ac06b66dfe243baaf529332",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IR",
      "math.OC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2014-10-29T01:15:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "58075f3637b5e4d06596a7d4e13211b4f95d1da8de5044d7af2cf9c2899c516f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1410.7852",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}