Pith Number

pith:3YGWAYAK

pith:2014:3YGWAYAK65Y4BACDC56Y6RD3IN

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Exploration vs. Exploitation in the Information Filtering Problem

Peter I. Frazier, Xiaoting Zhao

arxiv:1407.8186 v3 · 2014-07-30 · math.OC · cs.IR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3YGWAYAK65Y4BACDC56Y6RD3IN}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T02:27:44.365917Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

de0d60600af771c08043177d8f447b4356054105aa5cc59b3ccb4fc71b0f3ac4

Aliases

arxiv: 1407.8186 · arxiv_version: 1407.8186v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1407.8186 · pith_short_12: 3YGWAYAK65Y4 · pith_short_16: 3YGWAYAK65Y4BACD · pith_short_8: 3YGWAYAK

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/3YGWAYAK65Y4BACDC56Y6RD3IN \
  | 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: de0d60600af771c08043177d8f447b4356054105aa5cc59b3ccb4fc71b0f3ac4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b715ab600d5910b9de2ad593a618de81db8745d3eaada31c75e0f18613f34ef8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2014-07-30T20:00:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3277413c4170461c9f3566f061972560041f33ffadc4ac6e5eb017020468d9df"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1407.8186",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}