Pith Number

pith:3GOZW37Z

pith:2021:3GOZW37ZE4EH6JVASTMO347CAD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Near-Optimal Randomized Exploration for Tabular Markov Decision Processes

Maryam Fazel, Qiwen Cui, Ruoqi Shen, Simon S. Du, Zhihan Xiong

arxiv:2102.09703 v5 · 2021-02-19 · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3GOZW37ZE4EH6JVASTMO347CAD}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-07-05T05:06:07.233351Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d99d9b6ff927087f26a094d8edf3e200f65cac61e363e0aa1e66b55aa2ddef14

Aliases

arxiv: 2102.09703 · arxiv_version: 2102.09703v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2102.09703 · pith_short_12: 3GOZW37ZE4EH · pith_short_16: 3GOZW37ZE4EH6JVA · pith_short_8: 3GOZW37Z

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/3GOZW37ZE4EH6JVASTMO347CAD \
  | 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: d99d9b6ff927087f26a094d8edf3e200f65cac61e363e0aa1e66b55aa2ddef14

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8512f4aad4b2be7b5d997cdc216e079e6c313dedf9d25f6a17b497baa0a4ebd5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2021-02-19T01:42:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5ee2288d712e6a1a9940e3b7a4b4278903d79f028c53f0e3b556e58d3c2933ff"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2102.09703",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}