Pith Number

pith:XZ4A3NBT

pith:2016:XZ4A3NBTHESGDQQMOOW2XYHWIQ

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Open Problem: Best Arm Identification: Almost Instance-Wise Optimality and the Gap Entropy Conjecture

Jian Li, Lijie Chen

arxiv:1605.08481 v1 · 2016-05-27 · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XZ4A3NBTHESGDQQMOOW2XYHWIQ}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:13:29.830914Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

be780db433392461c20c73adabe0f64422da60c3546bd6b7d44749918fd1e87c

Aliases

arxiv: 1605.08481 · arxiv_version: 1605.08481v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1605.08481 · pith_short_12: XZ4A3NBTHESG · pith_short_16: XZ4A3NBTHESGDQQM · pith_short_8: XZ4A3NBT

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/XZ4A3NBTHESGDQQMOOW2XYHWIQ \
  | 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: be780db433392461c20c73adabe0f64422da60c3546bd6b7d44749918fd1e87c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "232e982d9bb0adacb8ad673f752e6d7e5399763a20df4af130c025586d73e109",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2016-05-27T00:23:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8066884b6e48ffce8af16784c6a656bfe474c55d36b9b746cdc65f53349aee19"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1605.08481",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}