Pith Number

pith:STY4O33B

pith:2026:STY4O33B6CDDNFQLBLP3E4ADDB

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Anytime-valid Optimal Policy Identification

Daniel Molitor

arxiv:2606.17515 v1 · 2026-06-16 · stat.ME · stat.ML

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{STY4O33B6CDDNFQLBLP3E4ADDB}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-06-19T16:10:14.892117Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

94f1c76f61f08636960b0adfb2700318692cfb976f8f5452cf984403ecc5cbfb

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.17515 · arxiv_version: 2606.17515v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.17515 · pith_short_12: STY4O33B6CDD · pith_short_16: STY4O33B6CDDNFQL · pith_short_8: STY4O33B

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/STY4O33B6CDDNFQLBLP3E4ADDB \
  | 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: 94f1c76f61f08636960b0adfb2700318692cfb976f8f5452cf984403ecc5cbfb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1aa62ffe621a4994f574456fb15a1993006d9b134d1f4ffab98dffd2c88ebbaa",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-16T04:49:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ebfe6c92eca2e2fb0401747a85f6f945864b662db9f72473b6e2852d57679a81"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.17515",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}