Pith Number

pith:3JBANL6R

pith:2015:3JBANL6RRZL4Y6KQ7HB536PPTB

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An Emphatic Approach to the Problem of Off-policy Temporal-Difference Learning

A. Rupam Mahmood, Martha White, Richard S. Sutton

arxiv:1503.04269 v2 · 2015-03-14 · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3JBANL6RRZL4Y6KQ7HB536PPTB}

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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	2026-05-18T01:10:46.009309Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

da4206afd18e57cc7950f9c3ddf9ef986d23e50d68630ece142382a17c2def3e

Aliases

arxiv: 1503.04269 · arxiv_version: 1503.04269v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1503.04269 · pith_short_12: 3JBANL6RRZL4 · pith_short_16: 3JBANL6RRZL4Y6KQ · pith_short_8: 3JBANL6R

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/3JBANL6RRZL4Y6KQ7HB536PPTB \
  | 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: da4206afd18e57cc7950f9c3ddf9ef986d23e50d68630ece142382a17c2def3e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a0ccb4b925655903f156215d60dec64d54a7eca8645db70094d7e7107533c801",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2015-03-14T04:44:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "aa0df89874f2565da404e1493bb5403163bab6ab3195903b2e4811b2f6ccd50d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1503.04269",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}