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pith:JEWTWNYY

pith:2020:JEWTWNYY3PC53D7ARHLPWFRKQ2

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Beyond UCB: Optimal and Efficient Contextual Bandits with Regression Oracles

Alexander Rakhlin, Dylan J. Foster

arxiv:2002.04926 v2 · 2020-02-12 · cs.LG · math.ST · stat.ML · stat.TH

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The Sample Complexity of Multiclass and Sparse Contextual Bandits

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First computed	2026-07-05T01:12:37.388575Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

492d3b3718dbc5dd8fe089d6fb162a86813b12feb8ffc5d8d44f25a9affacc4d

Aliases

arxiv: 2002.04926 · arxiv_version: 2002.04926v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2002.04926 · pith_short_12: JEWTWNYY3PC5 · pith_short_16: JEWTWNYY3PC53D7A · pith_short_8: JEWTWNYY

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/JEWTWNYY3PC53D7ARHLPWFRKQ2 \
  | 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: 492d3b3718dbc5dd8fe089d6fb162a86813b12feb8ffc5d8d44f25a9affacc4d

Canonical record JSON

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      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2020-02-12T11:33:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "be08ebb86ed03b4e3e755d69474ba5a22aad80c036b3c85dfb1856481c91ea39"
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