Pith Number

pith:XFYMCAAV

pith:2017:XFYMCAAV7WLMTZUT7RYNSGCIDL

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A KL-LUCB Bandit Algorithm for Large-Scale Crowdsourcing

Bob Mankoff, Ervin Tanczos, Robert Nowak

arxiv:1709.03570 v1 · 2017-09-11 · math.ST · stat.TH

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\pithnumber{XFYMCAAV7WLMTZUT7RYNSGCIDL}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:35:30.143135Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b970c10015fd96c9e693fc70d918481ae5aacfdc270f04cfdf633c6d8be49bbc

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.03570 · arxiv_version: 1709.03570v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.03570 · pith_short_12: XFYMCAAV7WLM · pith_short_16: XFYMCAAV7WLMTZUT · pith_short_8: XFYMCAAV

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/XFYMCAAV7WLMTZUT7RYNSGCIDL \
  | 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: b970c10015fd96c9e693fc70d918481ae5aacfdc270f04cfdf633c6d8be49bbc

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3c56b26736d0ec92df8840f1bd578a184951f95a1d002fa36995c065d61ae1f9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-11T20:14:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3ed508e59fa3615e26ee31739ac9b715dca12bef2c2500c4c91cf9d3054ed6eb"
  },
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  "source": {
    "id": "1709.03570",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}