Pith Number

pith:ZR2VFB4K

pith:2021:ZR2VFB4KGBPY6WNZGFERBQPX2Q

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Restless Bandits with Many Arms: Beating the Central Limit Theorem

Peter I. Frazier, Xiangyu Zhang

arxiv:2107.11911 v1 · 2021-07-25 · math.OC · cs.LG · math.PR

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\pithnumber{ZR2VFB4KGBPY6WNZGFERBQPX2Q}

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First computed	2026-07-05T03:00:38.579930Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cc7552878a305f8f59b9314910c1f7d4138e569d9bc97975d2bb4686b50cfb37

Aliases

arxiv: 2107.11911 · arxiv_version: 2107.11911v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2107.11911 · pith_short_12: ZR2VFB4KGBPY · pith_short_16: ZR2VFB4KGBPY6WNZ · pith_short_8: ZR2VFB4K

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ZR2VFB4KGBPY6WNZGFERBQPX2Q \
  | 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: cc7552878a305f8f59b9314910c1f7d4138e569d9bc97975d2bb4686b50cfb37

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7a85534d63ae364b6350183331cfbab762ae9f6260e182bbd23a5f3a463e8d31",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "math.PR"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2021-07-25T23:27:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3e56e06274f9510e19a38d4890d3f06fe5965ac233f83eeb5cae35c51d4ab9f2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2107.11911",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}