Pith Number

pith:3JYECNWZ

pith:2018:3JYECNWZKHO6JB2QDYBCYHMPLV

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Distribution-based objectives for Markov Decision Processes

Blaise Genest, Nikhil Vyas, S. Akshay

arxiv:1804.09341 v1 · 2018-04-25 · cs.LO · cs.CC · cs.DM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3JYECNWZKHO6JB2QDYBCYHMPLV}

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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	2026-05-18T00:17:32.077657Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

da704136d951dde487501e022c1d8f5d4cc4a945890824a42c402fb7ddf6adcc

Aliases

arxiv: 1804.09341 · arxiv_version: 1804.09341v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1804.09341 · pith_short_12: 3JYECNWZKHO6 · pith_short_16: 3JYECNWZKHO6JB2Q · pith_short_8: 3JYECNWZ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/3JYECNWZKHO6JB2QDYBCYHMPLV \
  | 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: da704136d951dde487501e022c1d8f5d4cc4a945890824a42c402fb7ddf6adcc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c268b22075866aeebf366b891818edc72c74b80634964f3de74ecee7215c6985",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CC",
      "cs.DM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LO",
    "submitted_at": "2018-04-25T04:37:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b54b59cd5f92ef3314e0ffa2e58dbac5f9b5635c653ef09edf7cb91831c0e4b0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1804.09341",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}