Pith Number

pith:OYF5O2ST

pith:2017:OYF5O2STYB4OTRQSOF4WGGRQHT

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Deep Exploration via Randomized Value Functions

Benjamin Van Roy, Daniel Russo, Ian Osband, Zheng Wen

arxiv:1703.07608 v5 · 2017-03-22 · stat.ML · cs.AI · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OYF5O2STYB4OTRQSOF4WGGRQHT}

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4 Citations 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	2026-07-05T00:06:21.064067Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

760bd76a53c078e9c6127179631a303cec582698d0c3b60d35e6389126cb9de4

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.07608 · arxiv_version: 1703.07608v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.07608 · pith_short_12: OYF5O2STYB4O · pith_short_16: OYF5O2STYB4OTRQS · pith_short_8: OYF5O2ST

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/OYF5O2STYB4OTRQSOF4WGGRQHT \
  | 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: 760bd76a53c078e9c6127179631a303cec582698d0c3b60d35e6389126cb9de4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f51e22b3d8a60bcac51a090775d30071c4add5239d6300fdeaad43bab48e2b5c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-22T11:53:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "09f1455ff87df68fd4a60f6d8277320bbd6a0b4527c7e85e5527f5814b73a8f4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.07608",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}