Pith Number

pith:YEWIV6BZ

pith:2017:YEWIV6BZFMOCANZNMQDR3VUJGT

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Optimal Policies for Observing Time Series and Related Restless Bandit Problems

Christopher R. Dance, Tomi Silander

arxiv:1703.10010 v1 · 2017-03-29 · stat.ML

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YEWIV6BZFMOCANZNMQDR3VUJGT}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:47:38.830748Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c12c8af8392b1c20372d64071dd68934d63bde70991e7e10d8bb14123aee6469

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.10010 · arxiv_version: 1703.10010v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.10010 · pith_short_12: YEWIV6BZFMOC · pith_short_16: YEWIV6BZFMOCANZN · pith_short_8: YEWIV6BZ

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/YEWIV6BZFMOCANZNMQDR3VUJGT \
  | 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: c12c8af8392b1c20372d64071dd68934d63bde70991e7e10d8bb14123aee6469

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "27f98c9f8b196ad7d3e01ab80b73380baf1d40bc1daa10a7ac9777035293e309",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-29T12:46:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "268eb005428214233cbb24ce950ef5e590f4e9ff4fb17e29cd34c00aa8463f80"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.10010",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}