Pith Number

pith:DVN2XWPV

pith:2017:DVN2XWPV3BY5BXTBUMGB6TZRZH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Efficient Contextual Bandits in Non-stationary Worlds

Alekh Agarwal, Chen-Yu Wei, Haipeng Luo, John Langford

arxiv:1708.01799 v4 · 2017-08-05 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DVN2XWPV3BY5BXTBUMGB6TZRZH}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:49:28.052478Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1d5babd9f5d871d0de61a30c1f4f31c9c55a8c3d59f860fb619c3ec0f34bb5c1

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.01799 · arxiv_version: 1708.01799v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.01799 · pith_short_12: DVN2XWPV3BY5 · pith_short_16: DVN2XWPV3BY5BXTB · pith_short_8: DVN2XWPV

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/DVN2XWPV3BY5BXTBUMGB6TZRZH \
  | 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: 1d5babd9f5d871d0de61a30c1f4f31c9c55a8c3d59f860fb619c3ec0f34bb5c1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cd6e3f40a96bacfc92f10c31ee1ed13e7944dd4b4e99aa61112dcd9b0fb7da49",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-05T18:21:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fea2e3fad349fb863a1a1f69a74613d41a8e90c5d51ec480dff26b9bb70219b0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.01799",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}