Pith Number

pith:X7XPIZY3

pith:2008:X7XPIZY3OGDEU6WYZWCZFUW7UB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Algorithm Selection as a Bandit Problem with Unbounded Losses

Juergen Schmidhuber, Matteo Gagliolo

arxiv:0807.1494 v1 · 2008-07-09 · cs.AI · cs.GT · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{X7XPIZY3OGDEU6WYZWCZFUW7UB}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T03:35:02.577195Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bfeef4671b71864a7ad8cd8592d2dfa047e21a9bd53d21859482413198537356

Aliases

arxiv: 0807.1494 · arxiv_version: 0807.1494v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0807.1494 · pith_short_12: X7XPIZY3OGDE · pith_short_16: X7XPIZY3OGDEU6WY · pith_short_8: X7XPIZY3

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/X7XPIZY3OGDEU6WYZWCZFUW7UB \
  | 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: bfeef4671b71864a7ad8cd8592d2dfa047e21a9bd53d21859482413198537356

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "304e1bf21dd03b94747e9cc3c37929301ad5114d9300617da16b0d14a9dfe2ba",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.GT",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2008-07-09T16:47:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6c24c0d00713909a36deb55b61167a5ead9fd884f4ace36ce62cadc87d2bf8fb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0807.1494",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}