Pith Number

pith:XQ4BDMMD

pith:2019:XQ4BDMMDTCZX67HSLEF5ANJH7J

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The Perils of Exploration under Competition: A Computational Modeling Approach

Aleksandrs Slivkins, Guy Aridor, Kevin Liu, Zhiwei Steven Wu

arxiv:1902.05590 v2 · 2019-02-14 · cs.GT · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XQ4BDMMDTCZX67HSLEF5ANJH7J}

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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	2026-05-17T23:47:12.092669Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bc3811b18398b37f7cf2590bd03527fa56d946e93f83dda2237aef2d156555f3

Aliases

arxiv: 1902.05590 · arxiv_version: 1902.05590v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1902.05590 · pith_short_12: XQ4BDMMDTCZX · pith_short_16: XQ4BDMMDTCZX67HS · pith_short_8: XQ4BDMMD

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/XQ4BDMMDTCZX67HSLEF5ANJH7J \
  | 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: bc3811b18398b37f7cf2590bd03527fa56d946e93f83dda2237aef2d156555f3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f9c9d4df3514a2b94178d114fd68a9d47d20f289b296b102208a43a5e09f4dca",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2019-02-14T20:16:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "10183902acfe25a3b66c5347002de9fb124245b83d9be11172875f4fe287074f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1902.05590",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}