Pith Number

pith:XLLKDHFQ

pith:2025:XLLKDHFQDCL5PRUGLSHEMBFA62

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Should You Use Your Large Language Model to Explore or Exploit?

Aleksandrs Slivkins, Keegan Harris

arxiv:2502.00225 v4 · 2025-01-31 · cs.LG · cs.AI · cs.CL

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\pithnumber{XLLKDHFQDCL5PRUGLSHEMBFA62}

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Exploration and Exploitation Errors Are Measurable for Language Model Agents

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First computed	2026-06-08T01:03:43.309188Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bad6a19cb01897d7c6865c8e4604a0f69c3907ccaef289648dbb6ac30d6a1e77

Aliases

arxiv: 2502.00225 · arxiv_version: 2502.00225v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2502.00225 · pith_short_12: XLLKDHFQDCL5 · pith_short_16: XLLKDHFQDCL5PRUG · pith_short_8: XLLKDHFQ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/XLLKDHFQDCL5PRUGLSHEMBFA62 \
  | 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: bad6a19cb01897d7c6865c8e4604a0f69c3907ccaef289648dbb6ac30d6a1e77

Canonical record JSON

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      "cs.AI",
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2025-01-31T23:42:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "75c7805f87db316de4504d36c8acf6d7175ca1fef261920c983bdb4326deb162"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}