Pith Number

pith:XOYPGSEX

pith:2017:XOYPGSEXKUU5YZNAX6UENN43HQ

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Estimation Considerations in Contextual Bandits

Guido Imbens, Maria Dimakopoulou, Susan Athey, Zhengyuan Zhou

arxiv:1711.07077 v4 · 2017-11-19 · stat.ML · cs.LG · econ.EM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XOYPGSEXKUU5YZNAX6UENN43HQ}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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	2026-05-17T23:58:14.785829Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bbb0f348975529dc65a0bfa846b79b3c3a68a74816f4cf39c4b127a045459e88

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.07077 · arxiv_version: 1711.07077v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.07077 · pith_short_12: XOYPGSEXKUU5 · pith_short_16: XOYPGSEXKUU5YZNA · pith_short_8: XOYPGSEX

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/XOYPGSEXKUU5YZNAX6UENN43HQ \
  | 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: bbb0f348975529dc65a0bfa846b79b3c3a68a74816f4cf39c4b127a045459e88

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d4e3c8cbd81aa1961591a147f18f3dba737703823b3913f360b1d0f394afd926",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "econ.EM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-19T20:49:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e864f80b1eb47b2ae30f2228ee009c4f2a30fbf89c1ef406f8fdc3401be3e240"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.07077",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}