Pith Number

pith:URUHWUAD

pith:2016:URUHWUADDXJA3CNADMGQU2VGLG

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BISTRO: An Efficient Relaxation-Based Method for Contextual Bandits

Alexander Rakhlin, Karthik Sridharan

arxiv:1602.02196 v1 · 2016-02-06 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{URUHWUADDXJA3CNADMGQU2VGLG}

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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	2026-05-18T01:21:10.683776Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a4687b50031dd20d89a01b0d0a6aa659a4961f0a8abd690fc73bd3f0aabc6ad2

Aliases

arxiv: 1602.02196 · arxiv_version: 1602.02196v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1602.02196 · pith_short_12: URUHWUADDXJA · pith_short_16: URUHWUADDXJA3CNA · pith_short_8: URUHWUAD

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/URUHWUADDXJA3CNADMGQU2VGLG \
  | 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: a4687b50031dd20d89a01b0d0a6aa659a4961f0a8abd690fc73bd3f0aabc6ad2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "01445ab8e90089a8c08a7d947aafc986d642ece85a7c17a961d7e5f6dda6338a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2016-02-06T00:34:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6d00139264668962d8e524192223ca1eb4d51961bb21282e29ee601523a40153"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1602.02196",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}